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A compilation of important points from the Cloud Governance articles I read: Cloud services governance involves applying specific policies or principles to the use of cloud services. It can be useful to think of cloud governance by examining its opposite: the free-for-all chaos in which cloud services are used by an organization without any oversight in place. To avoid this chaos, put polices in place for cloud service use to control the leakage of private information to the cloud and to control the  excessive use of cloud services (which must be paid for, after all). With governance and security in place, cloud computing can be used in safety and confidence. The idea of Cloud governance is to monitor cloud resource usage, such as servers and services, and to limit what systems and users can do with those resources. Cloud governance comes in many flavors, including service level, data level and platform level Service­ level or API governance installs policies around acces...

The documentation on Azure Services is getting better. As I work with Azure & keep reading and watching videos about its ever growing & improving services ( currently, 59 are listed on the Azure Status page ), I keep discovering new facts. I plan to note down the most essential information for each service to have a executive summary style list that can be reviewed often. ~#~ * Azure Media Indexer is a media processor that leverages natural language processing (NLP) technology from Microsoft Research to make media files and content searchable. *  By utilizing the output files of Azure Media Indexer in conjunction with a search engine like SQL Server or Apache Lucene/Solr, developers can create a full-text search experience . * For companies delivering large quantities of digestible media, using the Azure Media Indexer is the most comprehensive way to organize and classify media. * The service helps generate captioning, subtitles & transcri...