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Food, travel and tech are three of my favourite things so to say I was lucky enough to attend the Microsoft Ignite London Tour last week is a bit of an understatement. I hit my first hurdle almost instantly. With so many sessions on offer, and my FOMO (fear of missing out) coming out in full force, I had a tough time deciding which sessions to attend. The solution was simple \u2013 be selective, adopt the mind-set of a sponge, fill up on coffee, and go in full throttle.<\/p>\n

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Your data is YOUR data<\/h4>\n

During the entire event one thing was clear – Microsoft Azure provides you with a cloud framework that can manage, optimise, and govern your estate but at the end of the day it is still YOUR data and YOUR environment, and it is still down to you and your business to look after it.<\/p>\n

In life, you feed and water a plant if you want it to grow, but you also prune it to ensure it doesn\u2019t become wild and uncontrollable. A pruned plant is an easy-to-manage plant, and therefore you\u2019ll get the most out of it. The same concept applies to Azure.<\/p>\n

A big point to make here is that you shouldn\u2019t assume that your problems will just go away if you move your data to Azure. Your data is the same as it was before, but now you have a portfolio of endless tools and capabilities at your fingertips. You, and only you, must learn how to use and harness this feature-rich ecosystem to enhance your data, and your business.<\/p>\n

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Identity is key<\/h4>\n

Microsoft has dominated the market for many years with identity management through Active Directory (AD). Now they have taken that identity to a whole new level \u2013 enter Azure AD<\/a>, which allows users to consolidate identification from the traditional sporadically fragmented setups.<\/p>\n

Azure AD allows for advanced integration with other services (like SaaS) allowing true Single Sign On (SSO)<\/a> throughout the users\u2019 experience. A feature that a lot of people, including me, desire!<\/p>\n

With the above in mind, Azure AD means you have to protect those identities more than ever. This can be done using many of the Azure technologies such as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)<\/a> for advanced security. It\u2019s worth noting that Microsoft have advanced this further with the ability to use “password-less” logons, advanced conditional access<\/a> and dynamic groups<\/a> to help protect your environment.<\/p>\n

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The Art of the Possible<\/h4>\n

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning<\/em><\/p>\n

Today with an ever changing landscape it is now possible to build and create solutions never thought possible using Azure tools and services. What\u2019s more impressive is that this can all be done at the touch of a button with no upfront capital expenditure.<\/p>\n

At Microsoft Ignite I attended an AI session called Zerto to AI in 15 minutes<\/em><\/strong> which demonstrated setting up an AI environment for scanning images and applying AI to that service to help optimise a user\u2019s experiences using image recognition.<\/p>\n

The presenter told us she liked online shopping (don\u2019t we all!) and wanted a similar experience when she went shopping in person. When we shop online we find the items we like, and often we\u2019ll put them in our basket and come back to them later when we\u2019ve been paid, got a second opinion from a friend, or triple checked the specifications. So, the presenter took it into her own hands\u2026<\/p>\n

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Requirements<\/h6>\n

Create an app that would allow her to take a photo of an outfit instore and add it to an online wish list.<\/p>\n

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How did she do it?<\/h6>\n