Hey gurus.
Microsoft cloud for healthcare went into general availability last week,
which means that I can now fulfill my lifelong dream of calling
myself a cloud doctor.
Microsoft also unveiled its newest region in Taiwan and how you can now check
in on network configurations for your containers using Azure monitor.
This is Azure this week.
The show meant to help you diagnose what ails your cloud.
Healthcare is important.
I mean, at least just a little.
Suffice to say we want it to always be using the latest and greatest
technologies to help medical professionals give us and others the
best options for our health.
Because no matter how many times my doctor recommends leeches, I can't help,
but feel there are more effective and modern alternatives to treating an
occasional sore throat. To help bring medical providers into the present,
And more importantly,
the cloud Microsoft has put into general availability It's Microsoft cloud for
healthcare service.
This service includes products from both dynamics 365 and
Azure, and is aimed at simplifying data delivery to healthcare providers.
Azure is taking healthcare platforms such as the fast healthcare
interoperability resources API or FHIR,
and turned it into a paas offering under this service umbrella,
using services like FHIR and the new Microsoft health bot.
Microsoft hopes to create streamlined methods,
to help doctors determine things like diagnosis and treatment plans using
patient data that is available immediately from anywhere.
Security is another big piece of the puzzle.
As Microsoft has worked hard to ensure that all data on the platform is HIPAA
compliant to protect patients and continuing to maintain Microsoft
standards for data integrity as well.
Hot on the heels of announcing a new region in Austria,
Microsoft has brought a similar announcement to Taiwan.
With plans to not only build a new region for Azure,
but also invest in upskilling over 200,000 people over the next four
years,
Microsoft is making big moves to enhance technology around the world,
as well as stimulate growth and adoption by investing in people.
This will bring Microsoft to more than 65 regions when completed.
That's an incredible number of data centers to have providing cloud services to
customers around the globe. Pretty soon,
there won't be any more regions for Microsoft to build,
which I suppose is why they're putting them under water and starting to head out
into space. I wonder when we'll have an Atlantis data center?
Networking and Azure is largely one of the easiest,
yet most frustrating pieces of working in the cloud. On the one hand,
you can very easily set up enterprise grade networks,
established secure connections and create robust security configurations with
just a few mouse clicks. On the other hand,
it can be a pain to manage multiple configurations,
especially when it comes to networking with containers to combat this
last week.
Microsoft expanded on the NPM offering by including Prometheus metrics
with containers to help better understand your current network configurations
and how they interact with your Kubernetes cluster.
This should help to alleviate some of the headache around checking the settings
in your Kubernetes clusters,
by taking away the need to run the IP tables,
command on each individual container.
And instead transforming that data into easy to read dashboards,
you can create an Azure monitor. Using this new tool,
You can create a more human readable format for checking your IP table rules,
networking, configurations, and IP sets,
In addition to checking on those rules overall performance.
While this isn't quite the level of network auditing,
I'm sure some people want Microsoft to include, As I know,
I'm personally still waiting to be able to monitor traffic over VPNs.
It's a step in the right direction so that we better understand what's happening
in our systems in the cloud.
Microsoft clearly has its eyes set on cloud domination as it
continues to make bigger strides,
to not only expand its offerings to more regions on earth and beyond,
but also create robust offerings for niche industries,
such as government and healthcare with so many businesses buying for
cloud dominance.
Microsoft still continues to set itself apart as a provider of choice,
regardless of the workload you need,
but particularly if you fit into one of their more niche business offerings.
So where do you think Microsoft is going to drop its next data center?
Have any thoughts on if Microsoft can truly help the healthcare sector?
Let's talk about it in the comments,
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That's all I have for you this week, Gurus. As we say,
when we're treating our own PEBCAK diagnosis seek and you shall cloud.