How AI can help improve the digital customer experience
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4 ways to protect your organisation and mitigate the threat of ransomware
Protect yourself, your customers, and your organisation’s data and mitigate the threat of ransomware with these tips from Microsoft and The National Cybersecurity Centre....Read more
How Azure can help the public sector to innovate and stay resilient
The public sector can innovate, and transform for the future by moving to the cloud with the help of the Azure Pricing Arrangement....Read more
Azure Cosmos DB: A Completely Unofficial Primer
Ian Moulster is back with a totally unofficial look at Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB, a service that is growing at a phenomenal rate as developers and data scientists across the world start taking advantage of its remarkable capabilities....Read more
Azure Monitor Workbooks: How to find Virtual Machines that are in, and not in Azure!
Sorry I’ve been away for while, however I’m back with a few articles on Azure Monitor Workbooks. Thanks to Alp Babayigit for the idea and use case for this Workbook. I first started with Workbooks when Azure Sentinel was launched and published some articles here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sentinel/azure-sentinel-and-azure-arc/ba-p/999379 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sentinel/how-to-use-azure-sentinel-to-follow-a-users-travel-and-map-their/ba-p/981716 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sentinel/how-to-use-azure-monitor-workbooks-to-map-sentinel-data/ba-p/971818 Summary In this new Workbook, I...Read more
How to become data-driven: 6 steps to success
Analytics adds a competitive differentiator in most industries, but Rome wasn’t built in a day. Find the key requirements you need to become data-driven....Read more
The technical and soft skills needed to succeed with AI in 2020 and beyond
With the right tools and employee skills, every developer can transform into an AI developer, and every company can evolve into an AI company. But for the greatest success, you’ll need to embrace, and nurture among your team, a wide set of technical and soft skills. This could be through self-learning or partnering with another...Read more
3 tools to develop Azure skills in Higher Education
Higher education (HE) institutions within the UK are adopting cloud services at an increasing rate. Azure is a key tool for academic teaching and within the IT operations....Read more
4 reasons why SQL Server & Windows Server work best on Azure
Is your organisation one of the 90% of businesses that Forrester estimates have now migrated their operations to the cloud?...Read more
Azure Sentinel – Average GB per day
Why Average GB per day, it’s because that’s the information the Azure Pricing Calculator needs now that Azure Sentinel is released. This query looks at all billable data in your Log Analytics workspace and takes an average over the period. Example https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/calculator/ Then search for Sentinel / or look in the Security section. —————————————————————————————————————— //...Read more
Azure Sentinel – Costing Estimate (PAYG)
In this example, now that Azure Sentinel is Generally Available (GA) we can look at the Azure Monitor Logs (Log Analytics) and Azure Sentinel charges. I have used Pay as You Go (PAYG) for both, using USD $ and EASTUS as the region, but please feel free to adapt to you local region or currency....Read more
The team you never knew you had: 5 ways Microsoft can help secure your business
The average enterprise has something like 75 vendors involved in their cyber-security, compliance and identity management. Each additional third-party tool you use will require some level of integration....Read more