“Any A.I. smart enough to pass a Turing test is smart enough to know to fail it.” – Ian Mcdonald – River of Gods
What if neither distance nor language mattered? What if technology could help you be anywhere you need to be and speak any language? Using AI technology and holographic experiences this is possible, and it is revolutionary. Audio Description Version: https://youtu.be/JPPTfqIwfnE
Microsoft has added a great new service hub for assiting you with tools and methods to migrate on-premises systems, applications and data to Azure.
Moving on-premises apps and data to the cloud is a key step in our customers’ migration journey, and we’re committed to helping simplify that process. Earlier this year, we invited customers to participate in the preview of multiple new migration capabilities. Today, I am excited to announce the latest evolution of Azure Migrate, which provides a streamlined, comprehensive portfolio of Microsoft and partner tools to meet migration needs, all in one place.
With the general availability of Azure Migrate, including the new integrated partner experience, Server Assessment, Server Migration, Database Assessment, and Database Migration capabilities, we strive to make the cloud journey even easier for customers. Azure Migrate acts as a central hub for all migration needs and tools from infrastructure to applications to data. We are truly democratizing the migration process with guidance and choice.
New Azure Migrate integrated experience
The new experience provides you access to Microsoft and ISV tools and helps identify the right tool for your migration scenario. To help with large-scale datacenter migrations and cloud transformation projects, we’ve also added end-to-end progress tracking.
Continue at Source : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-the-new-azure-migrate-a-hub-for-your-migration-needs/
Microsoft Catalyst is an envisioning and planning program that uses Microsoft Dynamics 365, the Microsoft Power Platform and the Microsoft Cloud to support organizations in business transformation. Through a series of activities, organizations can build, plan, and execute business strategies with a proven, innovative approach. In this video, you’ll learn that Microsoft Catalyst is based on the IDEA framework, which encapsulates services across four key areas: INSPIRE, DESIGN, EMPOWER and ACHIEVE.
Source: https://dynamics.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-catalyst/
Microsoft announced PowerApps Portals, the ability to build low-code, responsive websites which allow external users to interact with the data stored in the Common Data Service.
Starting in next month, you’ll be able to create a new App type called “Portal” directly from PowerApps. Using a simple, dedicated designer experience, makers can create pixel-perfect websites which are custom branded and allow users to interact with data stored in the Common Data Service.
With the introduction of PowerApps Portals, we are also merging the capabilities offered by Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement portals to ensure that all the Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement application portals gets the benefit of our simplified low code offering.
ore informatio at source :
Introducing PowerApps Portals: powerful low-code websites for external users
Learn how PowerApps customers can create websites over data stored in Common Data Service that can be accessed by external users with a wide variety of identities including personal accounts, LinkedIn, and other Azure Active Directory organizations as well as allow anonymous browsing of content.
Video die de omslag van MIcrosoft op het gebied van partnerships over tijd goed weergeeft
Source : Vowe.net
The 3D Workspace is gradualy coming to live …
The Mt. Rogers research project is focused on improving traditional productivity tasks in mixed reality environments. It allows users to put on a head-mounted display and surround themselves with as many virtual monitors as is useful. Thus Mt. Rogers offers infinite screen real-estate in a portable and private manner. Our project goals are superb text readability, efficient user input and user comfort. By achieving these goals, Mt. Rogers can function as an effective monitor replacement while giving users access to the full Windows desktop and applications that they already know and love.
Read more : Mt. Rogers: Head-worn productivity displays
It’s common for enterprises to run workloads on more than one cloud provider; however, adopting a multi-cloud strategy comes with complexities like handling different cost models, varying billing cycles, and different cloud designs that can be difficult to navigate across multiple dashboards and views.
Azure Cost Management now offers cross-cloud support. This is available in preview and can play a critical role in helping you efficiently and effectively managing your organization’s multi-cloud needs. Onboard your AWS costs via an easy-to-use cloud connector to get a single view of your expenditures, so you can analyze and budget for the future in one place.
Get deep insights into your cloud spend with the rich graphic capabilities in cost analysis. Analyze your costs across 18 available dimensions like provider, service name, usage location, availability zones, meter, and tags. Cost analysis provides the flexibility to view granular charges to understand what’s driving costs and anomalies, or high-level views to analyze total and month-over-month costs for one or both of your cloud providers. Learn more about Azure Cost Management cost analysis.
Continue at source : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/manage-your-cross-cloud-spend-using-azure-cost-management/
Bij het ontwerp en de implementatie van (hybride) cloud oplossingen is het altijd verstandig om dicht bij de standaard te blijven en grillige workarounds of maatwerk, daar waar mogelijk, te vermijden.
Een belangrijke bron daarbij zijn zgn referentie architecturen; de bron / basis zoals de oplossing bedoeld is en zoals deze kan intergreren met bestaande omgevingen.
Microsoft heeft een goed overzicht van de hun cloud IT architectuur bronnen :
Learn core cloud architecture concepts for Microsoft identity, security, networking, and hybrid. Review prescriptive recommendations for protecting files, identities, and devices when using Microsoft’s cloud. Learn how to deploy a modern and secure desktop with Windows 10 and Office ProPlus.
These architecture tools and posters give you information about Microsoft cloud services, including Office 365, Windows 10, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and hybrid on-premises and cloud solutions. IT decision makers and architects can use these resources to determine the ideal solutions for their workloads and to make decisions about core infrastructure components such as identity and security.
Microsoft 365 enterprise solution series:
Bron : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/enterprise/microsoft-cloud-it-architecture-resources
Microsoft hybrid cloud is a set of business scenarios that combine a Microsoft cloud platform with an on-premises component. You can use hybrid cloud as a path to migrate your business and its IT needs to the cloud or integrate cloud platforms and services with your existing on-premises infrastructure as part of your overall IT strategy.
This poster tells the cross-cloud story on hybrid cloud architecture and scenarios for Azure, Office 365, Microsoft Intune, and Dynamics 365.
Download poster : here
Architectures to help you design and implement secure, highly-available, performant and resilient solutions on Azure.
Visit page : Azure solution architectures
The IoT Architecture Guide aims to accelerate customers building IoT Solutions on Azure by providing a proven production ready architecture, with proven technology implementation choices, and with links to Solution Accelerator reference architecture implementations such as Remote Monitoring and Connected Factory. The document offers an overview of the IoT space, recommended subsystem factoring for scalable IoT solutions, prescriptive technology recommendations per subsystems, and detailed sections per subsystem that explore use cases and technology alternatives.
https://azure.microsoft.com/nl-nl/blog/azure-iot-reference-architecture-update/
Microsoft Teams wordt door steeds meer organisaties in gebruik genomen. Teams is inmiddels een oplossing met een breed scala aan functionaliteit. Deze video geeft je een up to date overzicht van het gebruik van de meest recente functionaliteit van Teams.
Learn everything you need to know about using Microsoft Teams in 15 minutes. Aya Tange from Microsoft Teams walks through the end-to-end user experiences with a full demo tutorial: from chat and collaboration to online meetings and calling capabilities. If you’re in IT, we also cover the core set of admin controls for managing Microsoft Teams.
This show was recorded at Microsoft Ignite | The Tour in Amsterdam.
To learn more, check out: http://aka.ms/SuccessWithTeams
Een goed en up to date (mei 2019) overzicht van de ontwikkelingen rond MIcrosoft’s Azure datacenters door Mark Russinovich van MIcrosoft.
Join Mark Russinovich, Azure CTO, to learn how Microsoft’s Azure enables intelligent, modern and innovative applications at scale in the cloud, on-premises and on the edge. Microsoft Azure has achieved massive, global scale, with more than 50 announced regions consisting of over 100 datacenters, and it is growing fast. It delivers the promise of cloud computing, including high-availability, extreme performance, and security, by custom designing software and hardware to work best together. Mark takes you on a tour of Azure’s datacenter architecture and implementation innovations, describing everything from Azure’s global infrastructure, to how we enable large-scale enterprise scenarios on both cloud and edge, to how we bring quantum computing to real-world scenarios today, and more.