Introducing live video analytics from Azure Media Services—now in preview

By Dustin Ward

Azure Media Services is pleased to announce the preview of a new platform capability called Live Video Analytics, or in short, LVA. LVA provides a platform for you to build hybrid applications with video analytics capabilities. The platform offers the capability of capturing, recording, and analyzing live video and publishing the results (which could be…

General availability of Azure Files on-premises Active Directory Domain Services authentication

By Dustin Ward

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Files support for authentication with on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Since preview in February 2020, we’ve received great feedback and growing interest from our customers, especially because of increased work from home scenarios. With file shares migrated to the cloud, maintaining access using Active Directory…

New features and insights in Azure Monitor

By Dustin Ward

Customers need full stack observability for their apps and infrastructure across Azure and hybrid environments to ensure their workloads are always up and running, for which they rely on Azure Monitor. Over the past few months, we have released many new capabilities targeting to improve native integration with Azure, enable easier onboarding at scale, support…