MusicStore Application Upgrade to Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) Part Two
Since Steve Michelotti and I recorded the Migrate & Modernize with Kubernetes on Azure Gov Video on Microsoft’s Channel 9, production-level support for Windows Nodes has been added. So we decided...
View ArticleAzure Sentinel: A Tip of the Microsoft Security Iceberg
If you’re looking for an intelligent cloud-native Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solution that manages all incidents in one place, Azure Sentinel may be a good fit for you. Not only...
View ArticleTexas Department of Information Resource (DIR) Technology Forum 2019
Last week, AIS was invited to speak to at DIR one day conference for public sector IT leaders with the theme Journey to the Cloud: How to Get There. AIS’ session was titled Improve Software Velocity...
View ArticleAn Internship at AIS: A Wonderful Experience
One of the key experiences recommended during any one’s time as an undergraduate is doing an internship. It not only gives a person their first glimpse of corporate life but also is essential to boost...
View ArticleAzure Cognitive Services Personalizer: Part One
Azure Cognitive Services is Microsoft’s offering for enabling artificial intelligence (AI) applications in daily life, a collection of AI services that currently offer capabilities around speech,...
View ArticleMainframe to Azure: A Real World Modernization Case Study
When GEICO sought to migrate its sales mainframe application to the cloud, they had two choices. The first was to “rehost” their applications, which involved recompiling the code to run in a mainframe...
View ArticleWhat I Learned at DEF CON 2019: DIY Azure Security Assessment Best Practices
I recently had the privilege and opportunity to attend this year’s DEF CON conference, one of the world’s largest and most notable hacker conventions, held annually in Las Vegas. Deciding what talks...
View ArticleJEDI Cloud Computing Contract Awarded to Microsoft
After much anticipation, the US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract for cloud computing services to Microsoft over Amazon....
View ArticleWhat the JEDI Award Means for Public Cloud Adoption in the Government
Late last Friday, the news of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract award to Microsoft Azure sent seismic waves through the software industry, government, and commercial IT...
View ArticleAzure Cognitive Services Personalizer: Part Two
This blog is a follow on about Azure Cognitive Services, Microsoft’s offering for enabling artificial intelligence (AI) applications in daily life. The offering is a collection of AI services with...
View ArticlePlain and Simple: Azure Arc Is About ARM
Azure Arc is one of the significant announcements coming out of #msignite this week. As depicted in the picture below, Azure Arc is a single control plane across multiple clouds, premises, and the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Professional Program for Internet of Things (IoT)
The Internet of Things also called the Internet of Everything or the Industrial Internet, is a technology paradigm envisioned as a global network of machines and devices capable of interacting with...
View ArticleMicrosoft Teams Adoption Boosts Collaboration for ACA Compliance Group
ACA Compliance Group needed help streamlining the communications landscape and its fast-growing workforce to collaborate more effectively. AIS recommended starting small with Microsoft Teams adoption...
View ArticleThe Design Huddle: An Approach for Project Development Planning
K.C. Jones-Evans, a User Experience Developer, Josh Lathery, a Full Stack Developer, and Sara Darrah, a User Experience Specialist, sat down recently to talk through our design and project development...
View ArticleTop 10 Reasons to Choose YAML for Your Next Azure DevOps CI/CD Pipeline
When Microsoft introduced pipelines as part of their Azure DevOps cloud service offering, we received the tools to add continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) practices to our...
View ArticleAzure Data Lake Processing: A Big Project for AIS
AIS is working with a large organization that wants to discover relationships between data and the business by iteratively integrating data from many sources into Azure Data Lake. The data will be...
View ArticleAzure Cognitive Services Personalizer: Part Three
This blog is a follow on about Azure Cognitive Services, Microsoft’s offering for enabling artificial intelligence (AI) applications in daily life. The offering is a collection of AI services with...
View ArticleCreating SharePoint Framework (SPFx) Connections to Azure APIs
As promised in the previous blog post, here is a detailed explanation of how to connect to APIs secured in the Azure AD from SharePoint Framework (SPFx) web parts. Please read part I of this blog for a...
View ArticleAdvancements in SharePoint Framework and DevOps for Office 365
In this post, I will show you how DevOps practices can add value to a variety of Office 365 development scenarios. The practices we will discuss are Infrastructure as Code, Continuous Integration, and...
View ArticleUsing a Vue Component in an Angular App
Problem Let’s say you have a well-developed app written in Vue. It’s pretty big and has multiple teams working in the code base for both maintenance and feature development. Now, let’s say you need to...
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