The 5 Stages of Cloud Adoption
So, still not in the cloud and the thought of doing so feels like you’re taking a huge jump into unknown waters? We’re seeing more enterprises starting to dip their toe in the water with Microsoft...
View ArticleA Guide to GDPR Compliance with Microsoft Data Platform
As most people know, the GDPR is approaching quickly. May 25th to be exact. Most companies will need to review or modify their database management and data handling procedures, especially focusing on...
View ArticleHow Azure Data Factory Pricing Works
In today’s post I’d like to discuss how Azure Data Factory pricing works with the Version 2 model which was just released. The pricing is broken down into four ways that you’re paying for this...
View ArticleAzure Data Factory Pipelines and Activities
Yesterday’s Azure Every Day post covered how Azure Data Factory pricing works. In today’s post I’d like to go a bit deeper into Azure Data Factory Version 2 and review pipelines and activities. In...
View ArticleAzure Data Factory – Data Sets, Linked Services and Pipeline Executions
In my posts this week, I’ve been going a little deeper into Azure Data Factory (be sure to check out my others from Tuesday and Wednesday). I’m excited today to dig into getting data from one source...
View ArticleAzure Data Factory Integration Runtimes
This week I’ve been talking about Azure Data Factory. In today’s post I’d like to talk about the much-awaited Azure Data Factory Integration Runtime. The compute infrastructure provides data movement,...
View ArticleOverview of Azure Stream Analytics
Analytics is the key to making your data useful and supporting decision making. Today I’m excited to talk about Azure Stream Analytics. Azure Stream Analytics is an event processing engine that allows...
View ArticleHow Does Azure IoT Hub Work?
Today I’d like to talk about Internet of Things (IoT) and the Azure IoT Hub. IoT devices are not your typical devices like mobile phones, tablets or laptops. IoT devices are designed to respond to...
View ArticleDevice Management with Azure IoT Hub
Yesterday’s post covered what Azure IoT Hub is and what it brings. Today I’m going a bit deeper and talking about how the devices you’re bringing to the table get managed. IoT Hub provides the features...
View ArticleContinuous Integration and Deployment Using Azure Data Factory
Today I’m excited to talk about one of the new releases in Azure that gives you continuous integration and deployment using Azure Data Factory. This new release is an Azure Data Factory visual...
View ArticleOverview of Azure Data Catalog
In today’s post, I’ll give you an overview of Azure Data Catalog and an example of how you may use it in your organization. Azure Data Catalog is used to discover Azure data sources in your...
View ArticleAzure Common Data Services
What do you know about Azure Common Data Services? Today I’d like to talk about this product for apps which was recently re-done by Microsoft to expand upon the product’s vision. Common Data Services...
View ArticleAzure Data Factory vs Logic Apps
Customers often ask, should I use Logic Apps or Data Factory for this? Of course, the answer I give is the same as with most technology, it depends. What is the business use case we’re talking about?...
View ArticleHow and When to Scale Up/Out Using Azure Analysis Services
Some of you may not know when or how to scale up your queries or scale out your processing. Today I’d like to help with understanding when and how using Azure Analysis Services. First, you need to...
View ArticleAzure Enterprise Security Package for HDInsight
In today’s post I’d like to talk about the Enterprise Security Package for Azure HDInsight. HDInsight is a managed cloud Platform as a Service offering built on the Hadoop framework. It allows you to...
View ArticleWHAV.NET Interview for Cycle 4 Shelter July 2018
http://blog.bizdataviz.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Chris-Seferlis-WHAV-News-07-06-18.mp3 The post WHAV.NET Interview for Cycle 4 Shelter July 2018 appeared first on BizDataViz.
View ArticleHybrid Cloud Strategies and Management
Are you running a hybrid environment between on-premises and Azure? Do you want to be? In a recent webinar, Sr. Principal Architect, Chris Seferlis, answered the question: How can my organization begin...
View ArticleOverview of HDInsight Hadoop
In upcoming posts, I’ll begin a series focusing on Big Data and the Azure HDInsight offerings. If you don’t know, HDInsight is a fully managed, full spectrum open source analytics service for...
View ArticleOverview of HDInsight Spark
Today I’m continuing my series on HDInsight with the focus on Spark clusters. HDInsight Spark clusters provide the required baseline for in-memory cluster computing. This technology has gained momentum...
View ArticleOverview of HDInsight HBase
In continuation of my series on HDInsight and the different clusters within it, today I’ll cover HBase. HBase is a NoSQL database that provides random access and strong consistency for structured,...
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