This Week I Learned - Week #297
This Week I Learned -
* The majority of the Azure planned maintenance updates are performed without any impact to the hosted virtual machines.
* Azure Firewall is a managed cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources.
* Azure Site Recovery now supports firewall-enabled storage accounts
* Azure Site Recovery supports cross-subscription disaster recovery (DR) for Azure Virtual Machines.
* Use Azure Data Box service when you want to transfer large amounts of data to Azure but are limited by time, network availability or costs.
* Windows Virtual Desktop enables you to get the best virtual desktop with the full Windows 10 and an optimised Office 365 ProPlus experience. It enables you to stream the full desktop or apps to any device.
* Azure Advisor is a free service that helps you optimise your Azure resources to reduce costs, boost performance, strengthen security and improve reliability.
* Azure Virtual WAN provides a simple, unified, global connectivity and security platform to allow the deployment large scale branch infrastructure. ExpressRoute provides private connectivity into the Microsoft global network.
* AWS is 5 times more expensive than Azure for Windows Server and SQL Server
* Some actions are prohibited during the free trial. For example, during your free trial you may not use Google Cloud Platform services to engage in mining cryptocurrency.
* The New York Times built a processing pipeline using GCP products to digitize and organize its more than five million physical photos. They are using Cloud Storage to hold the photo scans, Cloud Pub/Sub to provide the data pipeline, services on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to resize images, and a Cloud SQL database to store metadata.
* The facial recognition algorithms Microsoft submitted to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST evaluation were consistently ranked as the most accurate or nearly the most accurate of 127 algorithms tested - Microsoft Blog
* LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a Chrome extension that can surface LinkedIn insights about your prospects and customers without having to leave Gmail. It will let you see rich LinkedIn profile data for your contacts directly in your Gmail
* Voice image ... is a collective package made up of equal parts of breath control, articulation, volume, pitch, tone, pausing and speaking rate.
* Oil-palm trees look like the coconut-palm trees you see on postcards from Florida — they grow to more than 60 feet tall and flourish on the peaty wetland soil common in lowland tropics. But they are significantly more valuable. Every two weeks or so, each tree produces a 50-pound bunch of walnut-size fruit, bursting with a red, viscous oil that is more versatile than almost any other plant-based oil of its kind. Indonesia is rich in timber and coal, but palm oil is its biggest export. Around the world, the oil from its meat and seeds has long been an indispensable ingredient in everything from soap to ice cream. But it has now become a key ingredient of something else: biodiesel, fuel for diesel engines that has been wholly or partly made from vegetable oil - NY Times
* The majority of the Azure planned maintenance updates are performed without any impact to the hosted virtual machines.
* Azure Firewall is a managed cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources.
* Azure Site Recovery now supports firewall-enabled storage accounts
* Azure Site Recovery supports cross-subscription disaster recovery (DR) for Azure Virtual Machines.
* Use Azure Data Box service when you want to transfer large amounts of data to Azure but are limited by time, network availability or costs.
* Windows Virtual Desktop enables you to get the best virtual desktop with the full Windows 10 and an optimised Office 365 ProPlus experience. It enables you to stream the full desktop or apps to any device.
* Azure Advisor is a free service that helps you optimise your Azure resources to reduce costs, boost performance, strengthen security and improve reliability.
* Azure Virtual WAN provides a simple, unified, global connectivity and security platform to allow the deployment large scale branch infrastructure. ExpressRoute provides private connectivity into the Microsoft global network.
* AWS is 5 times more expensive than Azure for Windows Server and SQL Server
* Some actions are prohibited during the free trial. For example, during your free trial you may not use Google Cloud Platform services to engage in mining cryptocurrency.
* The New York Times built a processing pipeline using GCP products to digitize and organize its more than five million physical photos. They are using Cloud Storage to hold the photo scans, Cloud Pub/Sub to provide the data pipeline, services on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to resize images, and a Cloud SQL database to store metadata.
* The facial recognition algorithms Microsoft submitted to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST evaluation were consistently ranked as the most accurate or nearly the most accurate of 127 algorithms tested - Microsoft Blog
* LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a Chrome extension that can surface LinkedIn insights about your prospects and customers without having to leave Gmail. It will let you see rich LinkedIn profile data for your contacts directly in your Gmail
* Voice image ... is a collective package made up of equal parts of breath control, articulation, volume, pitch, tone, pausing and speaking rate.
* Oil-palm trees look like the coconut-palm trees you see on postcards from Florida — they grow to more than 60 feet tall and flourish on the peaty wetland soil common in lowland tropics. But they are significantly more valuable. Every two weeks or so, each tree produces a 50-pound bunch of walnut-size fruit, bursting with a red, viscous oil that is more versatile than almost any other plant-based oil of its kind. Indonesia is rich in timber and coal, but palm oil is its biggest export. Around the world, the oil from its meat and seeds has long been an indispensable ingredient in everything from soap to ice cream. But it has now become a key ingredient of something else: biodiesel, fuel for diesel engines that has been wholly or partly made from vegetable oil - NY Times
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