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Azure IoT in Industrial Manufacturing
When you read about the Internet of Things, you often hear about connected cars, connected kitchen appliances, small devices that let you order things quickly, or other consumer-grade applications. In this post, I will quickly describe a recent IoT project I worked on where the devices are not small consumer-grade sensors...they are large industrial manufacturing… Read more »
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Optimized Manufacturing with MTConnect and Azure IoT
What is MTConnect? MTConnect is the communication standard of choice for manufacturing. It allows organized retrieval of data from shop floor equipment in a structured XML. The adjacent diagram depicts the key components of MTConnect. Let us start with the shop floor equipment shown at the bottom of the diagram – a CNC lathe. Above that, we… Read more »
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#AzureGov Meetup Recap: IoT Strategies For Government
The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) is certainly exciting for government agencies, but it also brings many challenges (namely security and devising a clear strategy for integrating a still-evolving technology). Last night's #AzureGov meetup was a great evening of networking, demos, use cases and best practices for government agencies looking to quickly and… Read more »
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DC #AzureGov Meetup Recap: Next Level Cloud Adoption
Microsoft Azure Government DC is a group created for anyone in the IT world modernizing Government to bring real-world lessons to innovators in Government. AIS has supported and presented during these events since there were just five members. Now, the group is nearing 4,000. The July meetup focused on getting your agency to next-level cloud… Read more »
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Azure Data Lake Processing
AIS is working with a large organization that wants to discover relationships between data and the business by iteratively integrating data from many sources into Azure Data Lake. The data will be analyzed by different groups within the organization to discover new factors that might affect the business. Data will then be published to the… Read more »
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Microsoft Professional Program for Internet of Things (IoT)
The Internet of Things also called the Internet of Everything or the Industrial Internet, is a technology paradigm envisioned as a global network of machines and devices capable of interacting with each other. It is a network of Internet-connected devices that communicate embedded sensor data to the cloud for centralized processing. Here we build an… Read more »
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Azure Sentinel: A Tip of the Microsoft Security Iceberg
If you're looking for an intelligent cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution that manages all incidents in one place, Azure Sentinel may be a good fit for you. Not only does Azure Sentinel provide intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence, but it's also considered a Security Orchestration and Automation Response (SOAR) solution, meaning it… Read more »
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#AzureGovMeetup Recap: Cloud-Driven Innovation & Solution Showcase
Last night's #AzureGovMeetup challenged government agencies to view the cloud as more than just a technology and software choice, but also as a business strategy to create greater impact for employees and citizens. With its agility, speed and low cost, the cloud is the key to helping agencies test and innovate new solutions faster than… Read more »
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Success Story
IoT Optimization Solution for Large Machine Tooling Company
Our customer had a machine optimization software solution that they wanted to re-platform in a lower-cost, more scalable, and flexible way. Their machine optimization system reports real-time and historical data on how cutting tools and machines are performing and recommends improvement opportunities. However, it was built using traditional software development techniques and doesn’t take advantage… Read more »
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Ignite 2017: Bring Cloud Innovation to Your Mission/Services with Azure Government
Steve Michelotti and I presented a session on AzureGov last week at Microsoft Ignite 2017 in Orlando. It focused on demonstrating the innovative capabilities in AzureGov that are specifically designed to help government agencies with their mission. We dedicated about 80% of the session to live demos. Steve started out with a brief description of AzureGov and… Read more »