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CIS Benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) provide organizations with configuration best practices for securing operating systems. Using these standards which have be… Continue reading Eliminating IoT vulnerabilities using CIS Benchmarks and Azure Defender for IoT
If you’re migrating your data estate to Azure, as is normal considering Azure is an enterprise cloud that can be the home for all data, including Oracle, you may wonder what storage solutions there are to support these types of IO heavy workloads…. Continue reading Oracle Workloads on Azure- IO is King!
This month we announced a variety of new integrations and capabilities geared to help individuals and organizations connect, share, and engage in a hybrid world. In fact, Yammer usage has doubled year-over-year and now supports tens… Continue reading What’s new and what’s coming for Yammer – July 2021
On Tuesday, August 10th at 8:30 am PST | 11:30 am EST, the #M365GovCommunityCall team will discuss the new hybrid workplace as it applies to the public sector and how we can best navigate the challenges of this shift in our environm… Continue reading Join our upcoming #M365GovCommunityCall on the New Hybrid Workplace
As part of efforts to improve access to care and the quality of care, your health organization may be looking to take advantage of a cloud communication and collaboration platform for virtual visits and streamlined care team collaboration. But … Continue reading Virtual health with a HIPAA BAA in place automatically
If you recently bought an Azure Percept Development Kit, or you are about to buy one, you probably wonder what kind of solutions you can build out of the box. In this blog post I explain how to use the standard people detection model and how to bu… Continue reading Detecting room occupancy with Azure Percept
There’s a specific day that occurred in 2016 that I will never be able to forget. On this day, I had a unique conversation with my parents that, looking back, may not have been too unique for a first generational African family given the circumstances…. Continue reading [Amplifying Black Voices] Why Leave a “Profession”?
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In this blog, we will look at how we configure near real-time monitoring of SQL Server on Linux and containers with the Telegraf-InfluxDB and Grafana stack. This is built on similar lines to Azure SQLDB and Managed In… Continue reading Near real-time monitoring of SQL Server Linux/containers using Telegraf-InfluxDB and Grafana