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Published • 10 min read

Processing trillions of events per day with Apache Kafka on Azure 

By Software Engineer II

n the current era, companies generate huge volumes of data every second. Whether it be for business intelligence, user analytics, or operational intelligence; ingestion, and analysis of streaming data requires moving this data from its sources to the multiple consumers that are interested in it.

Published • 5 min read

Best practices to consider before deploying a network virtual appliance 

By Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking

A network virtual appliance (NVA) is a virtual appliance primarily focused on network functions virtualization. A typical network virtual appliance involves various layers of four to seven functions like firewall, WAN optimizer, application delivery controllers, routers, load balancers, IDS/IPS, proxies, SD-WAN edge, and more.

Published • 3 min read

Build your own deep learning models on Azure Data Science Virtual Machines 

By Principal Program Manager

As a modern developer, you may be eager to build your own deep learning models, but aren’t quite sure where to start. If this is you, I recommend you take a look at the deep learning course from fast.ai. This new fast.ai course helps software developers start building their own state-of-the-art deep learning models.

Published • 2 min read

Account failover now in public preview for Azure Storage 

By Principal Product Manager, Cloud Security

Today we are excited to share the preview for account failover for customers with geo-redundant storage (GRS) enabled storage accounts. Customers using GRS or RA-GRS accounts can take advantage of this functionality to control when to failover from the primary region to the secondary region for their storage accounts.

Published • 4 min read

Advancing tactical edge scenarios with Dell EMC Tactical Microsoft Azure Stack and Azure Data Box family 

By Corporate Vice President, Azure for Operators

Today, Microsoft is announcing new intelligent cloud and intelligent edge capabilities for U.S. government customers. These new capabilities will help government customers uniquely address “the tactical edge”—or, a dependence on information systems and connectivity in harsh scenarios or other situations where users have critical data availability, integrity, and transparency needs.