Introducing Azure Data Factory Community Templates
Today, we’re excited to announce that Community Templates are now available, giving our community members an opportunity to contribute to our existing template gallery. Templates are predefined Azure Data Factory pipelines that allow you to get started quickly with Data Factory. Templates are especially useful when you're new to Azure Data Factory or Azure Synapse pipelines and want to get started quickly, reducing development time for building data integration projects, and improving developer productivity. A wide variety of best practices are also infused in templates that cater to different scenarios that you can build on top of. And if you have Git enabled, templates help create shareable pipelines for better collaboration within the same factory.Upgrading your server and client TLS protocol just got easier using Automanage Machine Configuration
Ensuring secure communication protocols across server environments has been a clear requirement for IT admins, operators, and developers for the past two decades. What wasn’t clear was how to set a desired communication protocol and maintain this at scale, until now. Tech CommunityWhat's new for Azure Stack HCI at Microsoft Ignite 2022
Today at Microsoft Ignite 2022, we’re announcing new ways that Azure Arc and Azure Stack HCI can help you operate hybrid seamlessly, including a new hybrid benefit for Software Assurance customers, public preview 2 of Azure Arc-enabled VM management, the general availability of version 22H2 packed with improvements, big changes for Azure Kubernetes Service, and an exciting surprise. Did somebody say hardware?
General availability of SAP CDC capabilities for Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics
Customers use SAP systems for their business-critical operations. Today, customers want to be able to combine their SAP data with non-SAP data for their analytics needs. Azure Data Factory (ADF) is an industry-leading data integration service which enables customers to ingest data from diverse data sources (e.g., multi-cloud, SaaS, on-premises), transform data at scale, and more. Azure Data Factory (ADF) works seamlessly to combine data and prepare it at cloud-scale. Customers are using ADF to ingest data from different SAP data sources (e.g., SAP ECC, SAP Hana, SAP Table, SAP BW Open Hub, SAP BW via MDX, SAP Cloud for Customers), and combining them with data from other operational stores (e.g., Cosmos DB, Azure SQL family, and more). This enables customers to gain deep insights from both SAP and non-SAP data. Today, we are excited to announce the General Availability of SAP CDC support in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics.Automating tax documents processing with Azure Form Recognizer
Tax documents such as W2, 1099, 1040, W9 are part of several scenarios and processes such as underwriting, business loans, mortgage loans, tax calculations and more. Extracting information from these documents is usually tedious, time consuming, and prone to errors. The cost and burden of extracting data manually and building out a team to do it is a huge effort with high costs. See how Azure Form Recognizer can assist in automating document extraction from Tax document and how H&R Block are using AI powered services.
Ignite 2022: What's new in Azure Video Indexer?
For Ignite 2022, we expand the product insights and functionality by shipping preview version of featured clothing detection, clapperboard, digital patterns and textless slate detection. In addition, we added more languages support, and release as GA the ability to manage account based on Azure resource management.Announcing the new Ebsv5 VM sizes offering 2X remote storage performance with NVMe-Public Preview
Today, we are announcing the Public Preview of two additional Virtual Machine (VM) sizes, E96bsv5 and E112ibsv5, to the Ebsv5 VM family. The two new sizes are developed with the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol and provide exceptional remote storage performance offering up to 260,000 IOPS and 8,000 MBps throughput.
