We would like to use Azure media services to stream the VODs that are currently available in the data center. We do not like to store these VOD files in blob storage rather in our own data center. These VODs are accessible through an URL from the data center.
Kindly let us know whether it is possible to achieve this?
Unfortunately, I'm sorry to say that this is not a supported scenario. The files are required to be stored in an Azure Storage account in a folder that Media Services Packager and Origin (Streaming Endpoint) can access. The Packager is not able to reach out across the internet (via VPN) to another on-premises storage repository and deliver the content.
I'd like more details on the business reason why you are not able to put the streaming VOD files on Azure vs. your data center. That would be good feedback for us to hear if we were to consider this as a future feature.
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I have a setup which consists of devices sending data to Azure cloud IoT Hub using message routing (to storage endpoints) which land up as blobs in a container. The frequency of data push is high. On the other end, I want to be able to query my blob container to pull files based on specific dates.
I came across blob index tags which look like a promising solution to query and is supported by the Azure SDK for .net.
I was thinking to add tags to each blob ex: processedDate: <dd/mm/yyyy>, which would help me query on the same later.
I found out that while uploading the blobs manually it is possible to add the tags but not sure how to go about or where to configure the same in the message routing flow where blobs are created on the fly. So I am looking for a solution to add those tags in flight as they are being pushed on to the container.
Any help on this will be much appreciated.
Thanks much!
Presently, the Azure IoT Hub doesn't have a feature to populate a custom endpoint for instance headers, properties, tags, etc.
However, in your case such as a storage custom endpoint you can use an EventGridTrigger function to populate a blob based on your needs.
I'm doing a small project that I don't know how-to connect IBM Watson with Django backend and even looking for the docs: I can't find examples, documentation or tutorials.
Basically, I want to create Jobs (Notebooks running) remotely, but I need to send an ID to each notebook because when I run a notebook I need to specify which file are going to process from Cloud Storage ("MY-PROJECT-COS"). The situation shown in the Figure below describes that.
The pipeline that I want to implement is like the Figure below. And this problem just stopped the whole project. I will really appreciate any suggestion, recommendations and solutions.
You should check the Watson Data APIs. Especially, Create a job and Start a run for a job API calls. Use the request body to pass the specific ID.
You can use a collection of Watson Data REST APIs associated with
Watson Studio and Watson Knowledge Catalog to manage data-related
assets and connections in analytics projects and catalogs on IBM Cloud
Pak for Data.
Catalog data Use the catalog and asset APIs to create catalogs to
administer your assets, associate properties with those assets, and
organize the users who use the assets. Assets can be notebooks or
connections to files, database sources, or data assets from a
connection.
Govern data Use the governance and workflows APIs to implement data
policies and a business glossary that fits to your organization to
control user access rights to assets and to uncover data quality and
data lineage.
Add and find data Use the discovery, search, and connections APIs to
add and find data within your projects and catalogs.
You can also access a local version of this API docs on each Cloud Pak
for Data installation:
https://{cpd_cluster_host}/data-api/api-explorer
We have a new ThirdParty File Based Integration coming for one of our projects. Its a different company that puts a file and we would need to grab the file and continue processing. We need this file needs to be transfered securely. So First Option that comes is SFTP however we are thinking of doing a research on SFTP vs Google Cloud Storage. Can Google Cloud Storage be used instead of SFTP ? what are the pros and cons of the same. Thanks!
These are two different sorts of things. Google Cloud Storage is a service that stores files. SFTP is a protocol for transferring files between two computers.
If your only goal is to transfer a file from computer A to computer B, and both can speak to each other via SFTP, then that's a perfectly good solution.
That said, services like GCS are commonly used as a drop box for large files as part of a distributed workflow. For instance, one service might record video and upload that video to GCS, and then another service might later transcode that video or take some other action on it. That's also perfectly reasonable.
So, I guess the answer is that it depends on what you want to do.
I am looking for a solution similar to Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage that can be hosted internally instead of remotely. I don't necessarily need to scale out, but I'd like to create a central location where my growing stable of apps can take advantage of file storage. I would also like to formalize file access. Does anybody know of anything like the two services I mentioned above?
I could write this myself, but if something exists then I'd rather now reinvent the wheel, unless that weel has corners :)
The only real alternative to services like S3 and Azure blobs I've seen is Swift, though if you don't plan to scale out this may be overkill for your specific scenario.
The OpenStack Object Store project, known as Swift, offers cloud storage software so that you can store and retrieve lots of data in virtual containers. It's based on the Cloud Files offering from Rackspace.
The OpenStack Object Storage API is implemented as a set of ReSTful (Representational State Transfer) web services. All authentication and container/object operations can be performed with standard HTTP calls
http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/
I am writing an App that requires some kind of outside input which I want the user to be able to update sporadically.
Are there any free web services where one can upload a file e.g. CSV and update it at any stage and then access it via iOS?
What about dropbox? Its free for small amounts and has a desktop and IOS client. It also has a fairly decent API.
http://www.dropbox.com