H&R Block’s blockbuster data strategy
February 15, 2023
Modernizing its data platform helped the tax-prep giant unleash innovations that have positioned the company for the future.
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Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Insight Engines
January 9, 2023
How your organization can benefit, no matter the industry.
Azure Orbital Ground Station as Service extends life and reduces costs for satellite operators
June 23, 2022
How can Microsoft empower satellite operators to focus on their mission and enable them to continue the operation of their satellites, without making capital investments in their ground infrastructure? To answer that question, Microsoft worked alongside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and our partner Xplore, to demonstrate how the commercial cloud can provide satellite mission management for NOAA’s legacy polar satellites (NOAA-18)—extending the mission life of these satellites while reducing the cost of operation through Azure Orbital Ground Station as-a-Service (GSaaS).
Microsoft launches Azure Health Data Services to unify health data and power AI in the cloud
March 15, 2022
Today, we take a giant step toward making the dream of interoperability in healthcare real. Microsoft is announcing the general availability of Azure Health Data Services, a platform as a service (PaaS) offering designed exclusively to support Protected Health Information (PHI) in the cloud. Azure Health Data Services is a new way of working with unified data—providing your team with a platform to support both transactional and analytical workloads from the same data store and enabling cloud computing to transform how we develop and deliver AI across the healthcare ecosystem.
Genomic analysis on Galaxy using Azure CycleCloud
February 7, 2022
Cloud computing and digital transformation have been powerful enablers for genomics. Genomics is expected to be an exabase-scale big data domain by 2025, posing data acquisition and storage challenges on par with other major generators of big data. One of the core Azure services that has enabled us to leverage high performance compute environment to perform genomic analysis is Azure CycleCloud.
Quickly get started with samples in Azure Synapse Analytics
October 22, 2020
To further accelerate time to insight in Azure Synapse Analytics, we are introducing the Knowledge center to simplify access to pre-loaded sample data and to streamline the getting started process for data professionals.
How Azure Synapse Analytics can help you respond, adapt, and save
August 24, 2020
Azure Synapse Analytics is a new type of analytics platform that enables you to accelerate your time-to-insight with a unified experience and—just as important—save on costs while doing so.
Share big data at scale with Azure Data Share in-place sharing for Azure Data Explorer
August 19, 2020
Azure Data Share in-place Sharing for Azure Data Explorer, now generally available, enables you to share big data easily and securely between internal departments and with external partners, vendors, or customers for near real-time collaboration.
Advancing Azure service quality with artificial intelligence: AIOps
June 29, 2020
As Mark mentioned when he authored the Advancing Reliability blog series, building and operating a global cloud infrastructure at the scale of Azure is a complex task with hundreds of ever-evolving service components, spanning more than 160 datacenters and across more than 60 regions.
Office Licensing Service and Azure Cosmos DB part 1: Migrating the production workload
May 11, 2020
This post is part 1 of a two-part series about how organizations use Azure Cosmos DB to meet real world needs, and the difference it’s making to them.