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Extracting insights from multiple data sources is a new goal for manufacturers. Industrial IoT (IIoT) data is the starting point for new solutions, with the potential for giving manufacturers a competitive edge. But tracking data is often relegated to more than one solution—and each solution is created to solve a different problem. Therefore, most manufacturers use three or more separate solutions to track KPIs connected with production, including: monitoring, maintenance, quality management, and energy monitoring systems. This means higher costs and lower efficiencies. And, given the disconnected states of these apps, there is no way to see the entire picture of operations. Altizon is working to solve this problem with a suite of three offerings...

More and more services are moving to the cloud and bringing their security challenges with them. In this blog post, we will focus on the security concerns of container environments.

In a previous blog post Azure Security Center announced new features for containers security, including Docker recommendations and compliance based on the CIS benchmark for containers. We’ll go over several security concerns in containerized environments, from the Docker level to the Kubernetes cluster level, and we will show how Azure Security Center can help you detect and mitigate threats in the environment as they’re occurring in real time.

Docker analytics

When it comes to Docker a common access vector for attackers is a misconfigured daemon...

We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Cost Management features for all Pay-As-You-Go and Azure Government customers that will greatly enhance your ability to analyze and proactively manage your cloud costs. These features will allow you to analyze your cost data, configure budgets to drive accountability for cloud costs, and export pre-configured reports on a schedule to support deeper data analysis within your own systems. This release for Pay-As-You-Go customers also provides invoice reconciliation support in the Azure portal via a usage csv download of all charges applicable to your invoices.

New feature

Azure Usage Download for invoice reconciliation

As a part of this general availability for Pay-As-You-Go customers, we are now providing usage download capabiliti...