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Developer and administrator tools for Microsoft Azure
By Christos Matskas, Premier Azure Dev PFE at Microsoft Microsoft Azure has seen a massive adoption...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 05/24/2017
How SQL Server and Azure Data Services are helping with digital transformation
With almost every business going through a period of digital transformation right now, many are...
Author: Gavin Payne Date: 05/16/2017
How to get started with HoloLens development
Microsoft HoloLens is the first self-contained holographic computer. A fully-mobile device that...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 05/11/2017
TechNet Pod #4 – The Data Science One ft. R-Ladies Global
Welcome back to the TechNet Pod! In this episode we chat with Alice Daish, a data scientist for The...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 05/09/2017
Learning from the Game Developers Conference, past and present
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is the world's largest professional games industry event. Over...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 05/04/2017
5 Tips for Successful Azure App Development
By Alex Bennett, Firebrand Training Alex works for Firebrand Training, a Microsoft Gold Learning...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 05/02/2017
System Center Configuration Manager and Windows 10: Better Together?
By Bethan Kelly, Technology Solutions Professional at Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 04/28/2017
TechNet Pod #3 – The Bots One
Welcome back to the TechNet Pod! This week we're missing our mysterious third member, so it's down...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 04/11/2017
How the Imagine Cup UK finals shaped our startup company
By Max Maybury, Director of Backslash Build and former Microsoft Student Partner Here is some free...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 04/06/2017
Data’s CODEX and the control of data expediently
By Victoria Holt, Senior Data Analytics and Platforms Architect at Eduserv This is the third...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 04/05/2017
Using AI to answer your customers' questions
By Martin Beeby, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft UK Artificial Intelligence is revolutionising and...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 04/04/2017
Effective cost saving in Azure without moving to PaaS
By Chris Taylor, DevOps Engineer at DevOpsGuys Recently we were asked if we could help a company...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 04/03/2017
Thinking outside the Windows box – Bringing SQL Server to Linux
Bringing Microsoft’s enterprise database engine, SQL Server, to the Linux operating system was no...
Author: Gavin Payne Date: 03/27/2017
Data Warehousing in the Cloud
By Chris Testa-O’Neill, Features Engineer at Microsoft. For a few months now we've had a SQL Server...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 03/24/2017
Miss a TechDays Online session? Catch up on-demand!
On the 22nd February 2017, we completed the fourth iteration of our MVP-led TechDays Online, a...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 03/20/2017
Application security with Azure Key Vault
By Christos Matskas, Premier Azure Dev PFE at Microsoft Azure Key Vault is a new(ish) service...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 03/17/2017
Playing Media with Xamarin Forms
By Peter Foot Peter is a Xamarin-certified Mobile Developer and Microsoft Windows Development MVP....
Author: Chris Walden Date: 03/16/2017
17 Reasons To Use Visual Studio 2017
By Giles Davies, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 is now released and available....
Author: Chris Walden Date: 03/14/2017
TechNet Pod #2 – The Linux One
Welcome back! We had some great feedback from episode one, and we can't thank you enough! With your...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 03/13/2017
Creating an Azure Data Factory Instance
Chris Testa-O’Neill is a Features Engineer in the Analytics and Data Science team at Microsoft. This...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 03/09/2017
Better OpSec Through Collaboration
Jessica Rose is a self taught technologist obsessed with technical outreach and education. She's...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 03/08/2017
How UK businesses can use the Apprenticeship Levy to boost Azure skills
By Alex Bennett, Firebrand Training Alex works for Firebrand Training, a Microsoft Gold Learning...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 03/07/2017
Improving Business Efficiency With Business Process Mining
Businesses are always seeking new ways to improve their efficiency. This really shouldn’t come as...
Author: Rick Delgado Date: 02/22/2017
Your 2017 guide to Azure Security Center
As ransomware attacks become more sophisticated, cloud based applications are at an increased risk....
Author: Chris Walden Date: 02/17/2017
It's 2017 – Get your business GDPR Fit for May 2018
Are your prepared for the new era in privacy regulation? By Rob Quickenden, Chief Strategy Officer...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 02/16/2017
Storing and exploring mountains of data
Gavin Payne builds on his article from last month about the common components of a Business...
Author: Gavin Payne Date: 02/15/2017
TechNet Pod #1 - The TechDays Online One ft. DevOps
Say hello to the TechNet Pod! Our new monthly podcast will roundup everything that's been happening...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 02/14/2017
Dialogs 101 - Modelling your conversation with Bot Framework Dialogs
James Mann takes a look at Dialogs using the Microsoft Bot Framework, as a sneak peek of his session...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 02/01/2017
Why developers need Microsoft Azure skills in 2017
The widespread adoption of Microsoft Azure means massive opportunities for developers with the right...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 01/31/2017
TechDays Online is back!
Quantum Computing is the future, and Blockchain and Bots are a reality! But what does this mean for...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 01/27/2017
Missed //AzureReady? Watch it on demand!
Did you miss //AzureReady last month? Not to worry, as you can now catch up on all of the...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 01/26/2017
Azure Stack – What can it do for my business?
Gareth Jones takes a look at the Azure Stack, including what it is, what it does and how your...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 01/25/2017
Democratising AI with Cognitive Services
As a preview for his upcoming talk at TechDays Online 2017, Gary Pretty takes a look at the...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 01/24/2017
How to Design Application Architecture for the Cloud
Cloud technologies significantly changed the software market. Easy access to compute, network and...
Author: Vadym Fedorov Date: 01/19/2017
From data to insight and impact – the BI revolution
This article is for those new to the world of business intelligence, such as application developers...
Author: Gavin Payne Date: 01/18/2017
Compliance – Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS) – How to Secure your Devices in 15 minutes (Part 2)
Source: Compliance – Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS) – How to Secure your Devices in 15...
Author: Ed Baker (UK Evangelist) Date: 01/18/2017
How to boost your Windows Server 2016 security
As the threat of cyber crime to UK businesses continues to rise, now’s the time to take advantage of...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 01/17/2017
Install and run the Azure CLI on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSFL)
Christos Matskas walks us through how you can get native Bash up and running on your Windows device....
Author: Chris Walden Date: 01/16/2017
Mastering Identity with Azure Active Directory – Episode 6: Managing your applications
The sixth part of John Craddock’s series into Azure Active Directory shows you how to add your own...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 01/10/2017
The five most common mistakes approaching DevOps
Microsoft MVP Matteo Emili talks about five common mistakes that are made when approaching DevOps,...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 01/06/2017
Why Big Data Project Management Can Be So Difficult
Big data is extremely beneficial to businesses, and gathering it is now easier than ever with...
Author: Rick Delgado Date: 12/20/2016
Anomaly Detection: Models Ensemble
In the final article of their three-part series, SoftServe’s Data Science Group (DSG) wraps up their...
Author: Chris Walden Date: 12/19/2016
Looking back at 2016 in programming humour
We've shared loads of funny animated gifs and images on our social channels. Cheeky, and often with...
Author: Sergejs Cuhrajs Date: 12/16/2016