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Azure Log Analytics Agent will be retired on 31st August 2024. Migrate to Azure Monitor.

Microsoft has announced that the Azure log analytics agent will be retired on 31st August 2024. Customers should migrate to Azure Monitor Agent to monitor their assets.   Announcement : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/were-retiring-the-log-analytics-agent-in-azure-monitor-on-31-august-2024/ Migration guide : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/azure-monitor/agents/azure-monitor-agent-migration About Azure Monitor Agent : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/agents/agents-overview  

Cloud computing, Data protection law in India and Sprinklr controversy #opinion

There is no legislation in India that specifically recognizes cloud computing. Hence all these computer related cases or crimes may be dealt with the existing IT Act and Privacy Laws. When compared to EU-GDPR or Canada's PIPEDA, these laws are very weak. Cloud computing services that deal with personal or sensitive personal information need to comply with the requirements set out under the Privacy Rules related to security, encryption, access to data subject, disclosure, international transfer and publication of policy statements. Cloud service providers in India may also be required to comply with the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines) Rules 2011 (Intermediary Guidelines) prescribed under the IT Act. Controversy : Sprinklr agreement is based on Laws in New York./Govt sells the data/without consent from citizen. India lacks stringent data privacy laws as well a strong IT act. However as per current law, the IT Act  covers offenses committed outside of India if

What is cloud? An Overview

As per NIST, Cloud is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of computing resources (eg: networks, servers, storage, applications and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider. In layman terms, a cloud is a set of resources available over internet that can be used by the companies to deliver their services to all over the world. The benefits of cloud includes, On demand self service : Companies can create and start a service as you desired in least amount of time. Broad network access and availability : Services hosted in cloud is available all over the world with better availability rate. Resource pooling : Cloud companies invested a lot of money to build the resources and these resources are shared among the customers in a multi tenant model. Rapid elasticity : resources are scalable up and down in least amount of time. For example, you can set up a working windows server in a m