Public preview: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision

By Dustin Ward

Computer Vision Read API for Optical Character Recognition (OCR), part of Cognitive Services, announces its public preview with support for new languages including Arabic, Hindi, and other regional languages with the same writing scripts. It also extends handwritten OCR support for Japanese and Korean, along with enhancements for handwritten dates, names, and amounts and general…

Serverless SWOT analysis

By Dustin Ward

Building a serverless application means you usually trade in old issues for new ones. This is an attempt to create a decision framework and break down arguments for and against using serverless vs. other computing models. If you ever find yourself deciding for or against serverless the following tries to make the decision easier for…

[Infographic] AWS RDS from a Serverless perspective

By Dustin Ward

In this article, we’ll deep dive into all the basics to help you decide if AWS RDS is the right decision for your architecture and help you hit the ground running if you do end up AWS RDS. For many decades now, relational databases (RDS) have been the place to store your data. They are…

Migrating your files to Azure has never been easier

By Dustin Ward

We pride ourselves on listening to our customers and then building products and partnerships that meet customer needs and enable every application to migrate to Azure. We recognize that migrating Virtual Desktop, Virtual Server, High Performance Compute, Analytics, and many other critical applications requires copying tens of terabytes to several petabytes of file data stored…