Microsoft's Sysmon and Azure Sentinel are easy and inexpensive ways to log events on your network. Here's how to get started with them.

Once they’re in place they connect to Azure to listen for configuration information, delivering logs for analysis by Azure-hosted application monitoring tools.

The addition of MQTT protocol support paves the way to bringing SCADA control systems and other industrial IoT deployments to Azure. Here’s how to get started.

Machine learning and predictive analytics are hot, emerging areas of the developer space right now, and Microsoft's new Azure cloud service could help make it more accessible to the masses.