Retailers embrace Azure IoT Central
For many retailers around the world, the busiest quarter of the year just finished with holiday shopping through Black Friday and Cyber Monday to Boxing Day.
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IoT Signals retail report: IoT’s promise for retail will be unlocked addressing security, privacy and compliance
Few industries have been disrupted by emerging technology quite like retail. From exploding online sales to the growth of mobile shopping, the industry has made a permanent shift to accommodate digital consumers.
Tips for learning Azure in the new year
As 2020 is upon us, we typically take this time to reflect back on the current year’s achievements (and challenges) and begin planning for the next year.
New enhancements for Azure IoT Edge automatic deployments
Since releasing Microsoft Azure IoT Edge, we have seen many customers using IoT Edge automatic deployments to deploy workloads to the edge at scale.
Azure Sphere guardian module simplifies and secures brownfield IoT
One of the toughest IoT quandaries is figuring out how to bake IoT into existing hardware in a secure, cost-effective way. For many customers, scrapping existing hardware investments for new IoT-enabled devices (“greenfield” installations) isn’t feasible.
Combine the Power of Video Indexer and Computer Vision
We are pleased to introduce the ability to export high-resolution keyframes from Azure Media Service’s Video Indexer.
Introducing maintenance control for platform updates
We are taking a look at the preview of a maintenance control feature for platform updates on Azure Dedicated Host and Isolated virtual machines. Using this feature customers can take control of host updates for a period of 35-days in a rolling window.
Microsoft partner ANSYS extends ability of Azure Digital Twins platform
Digital twins have moved from an exciting concept to reality.
Announcing the preview of Azure Spot Virtual Machines
We’re announcing the preview of Azure Spot Virtual Machines. Azure Spot Virtual Machines provide access to unused Azure compute capacity at deep discounts.
Announcing the general availability of Proximity Placement Groups
Earlier this year, we announced the preview of Azure proximity placement groups to enable customers to achieve co-location of Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) resources with low network latency.
Building Xbox game streaming with Site Reliability best practices
Last month, we started sharing the DevOps journey at Microsoft through the stories of several teams at Microsoft and how they approach DevOps adoption.
Enabling collaborative bot development across your organization for any user
Conversational artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling organizations to improve their business in areas like customer service and employee engagement by automating some of the most commonly requested services, which frees up employees to take on more value-adding activities.