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Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management Integration with Azure Lighthouse

29th July 2021
Leah Monterroso
Azure, Feature Announcements, News, Security

Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management (Azure AD PIM) integration with Azure Lighthouse, brings us another step towards Zero Trust and least privilege access.

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Microsoft Launch Cloud for Sustainability

20th July 2021
Leah Monterroso
Azure, Business, Feature Announcements, News, Social Responsibility

At Inspire 2021, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability. The service (currently in preview) is designed to help companies measure, understand, report and reduce environmental impact and therefore be able to measure progress towards sustainability goals.

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Ingestion Client for Azure Speech

14th July 2021
Leah Monterroso
Azure, Business Intelligence, Feature Announcements, News

The new Ingestion Client is a monitoring solution within Azure Speech that ensures that files are automatically transcribed upon upload. Simply start with a dedicated Azure Storage container and with easy configuration and no development required, Ingestion Client provides a secure and scalable pipeline for transcription.

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Update SQL Server Workloads to 2019 or Migrate to Azure SQL

7th July 2021
Geoff Ballard
Application Modernisation, Azure, Blog, Cloud Migration, Infographic, SQL Server

With end of support SQL Server 2012 round the corner, now is the time to upgrade SQL Server 2012 to 2019 or migrate to Azure SQL.

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Azure Cosmos DB Updates – May Highlights

8th June 2021
Leah Monterroso
Azure, Data, Feature Announcements, News, Software Development

Azure Cosmos DB saw an abundance of announcements at Microsoft Build, so here is a quick run through of our highlights along with links for further reading.

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Azure Applied AI Services

Microsoft has announced a new product category: Azure Applied AI Services. This builds on top of the already popular Azure Cognitive Services with additional task-specific AI models. The purpose is to bring together these models and business logic to solve common organizational problems without needing machine learning expertise or AI expertise.

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Azure SQL Database Ledger

8th June 2021
Leah Monterroso
Azure, Data, Feature Announcements, News, Security, SQL Server

We are excited to hear about the release of Azure SQL Database Ledger as an alternate to blockchain. For enterprises with centralised systems who want the capability of proving data integrity, this should be a game-changer.

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Azure Updates – May Highlights

8th June 2021
Leah Monterroso
Azure, Feature Announcements, News, Security, Software Development

Azure updates have seen the normal flurry that surrounds Microsoft Build and there are a lot of interesting things to take note of. We are going to cover Azure Cosmos DB, DevOps, BI, AI and SQL separately but let’s take a look at a few Azure highlights here.

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Public Sector Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft

This Memorandum of Understanding further strengthens the partnership between the Public Sector and Microsoft, allowing us as partners to now provide services for business applications.

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Migrating SQL to Azure

10th May 2021
Geoff Ballard
Application Modernisation, Azure, Blog, Cloud Migration, Data, Security, SQL Server

Migrating SQL to Azure is an important part of the migration process providing security and cost benefits whether you choose a hybrid option or go all in.

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