Hardware fails, all the time. We tend to take hardware for granted unless something really bad happens. One of my customers recently had a storage failure in the data center, taking down all their production servers. All their backup infrastructure was configured using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager storing the backup data in remote storage (Which wasn’t affected by…
I had an amazing time earlier this month attending Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Florida. It was a power-packed week with a lot of learning and networking. I’m still trying to catch with all the announcements that came during the week. On the 8th of November, the last day of Ignite I participated in doing podcasts with Dave Rendon., Here are…
Last week, I did a webinar series for devenger community, where i talked about how you can leverage Azure AI’s capabilities for building intelligent applications. We had great participation with hundreds of attendees across live streaming platforms including Youtube, Facebook, and Skillenza. Here is the recording of the webinar. In this session, I talked about the overview of Microsoft Azure…
With everything going around the world due to the COVID-19 crisis, conducting workshops isn’t the same anymore. I’ve had many in-person workshops scheduled around the Late March and April period which ended up getting rescheduled or were converted to virtual ones. In this post, I’ll talk about some of the best practices to follow when conducting a virtual workshop. While…
Originally published here – https://skillenza.com/challenge/online-meetup-machine-learning-models Get proven, secure, and responsible AI capabilities on your terms with Azure AI. Build mission-critical solutions that can analyze images, comprehend speech, make predictions using data, and imitate other intelligent human behaviours—all using Azure AI. This meetup will be an introductory session on AI on Azure, Azure Artificial Intelligence Services, covering the fundamentals of the…
CloudLabs is a hands-on lab platform used to plan, provision, and manage the lifecycle of lab environments for various scenarios including technical trainings, workshops, industry conferences, POCs, demos, etc. CloudLabs is used by technology companies and instructors around the globe at a scale where we provision thousand of lab environments every month. In this article, we’ll take a dive into…
It’s been less than a month since the first-ever virtual Microsoft Build conference concluded. Tons of exciting announcements, new features, and much more. In this webinar, I sat down with Azure community members from Bangalore and discussed about all the great things announced at Build 2020. I focussed on developer technologies primarily. Here is the recording of the webinar, Check…
In this post, we’ll look at Azure Notebooks; a completely free hosted Jupyter notebooks service from Azure. Jupyter has been quite popular lately among data science professionals and is becoming a preferred choice for running python code interactively to perform data analytics. Jupyter combines your code, documentation, data, any data visualization graphics in a single place. It’s an open-source project,…
We’re living in unique times. Amidst the global situation going around due to COVID, many of the top technology learning companies have come up to free or freemium plans to help people across the globe upskill themselves and stay relevant during tough times. In this post, I’ll be listing out the free/freemium technology learning resources available. Please do comment if…
It took a year but’s finally here. I’m excited to announce the release of my next book titled “Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure”: Re-architect and rebuild your applications using cloud-native technologies. It’s available in online stores as of today. It was a wonderful experience to collaborate with my wonderful co-authors Sjoukje Zaal, Mohamed Wali, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, and Stefano Demiliani Thanks to Rahul Nair, Ronn…