Source: futureiot.tech Microsoft and Cisco have announced that they are integrating their cloud and IoT services in a bid to ease the management of IoT devices. This mean tying together the recently released Cisco Edge Intelligence with Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub to make transferring data from edge devices to applications in the Azure cloud simpler. The announcement was Read More
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Source: mspoweruser.com Microsoft and Cisco recently announced a major IoT partnership that offers a pre-integrated Cisco Edge to Microsoft Azure IoT Hub solution. Both Azure IoT and Cisco IoT are leaders in the industrial IoT market. The new integrated solution from both these companies will enable organizations to rapidly launch IoT initiatives. “This partnership between Read More
Source: indiaeducationdiary.in New Delhi: Committed to enable the deployment of AI by customers and partners to drive positive change, Microsoft has announced winners of the prestigious AI Awards 2.0. Held in Mumbai on February 24, 2020, the second annual edition of the awards were presented in seven different categories, honouring companies that have implemented Microsoft Read More
Source: networkworld.com Cisco and Microsoft have tied together their edge-to-cloud software packages in an effort to ease the management of IoT devices. Specifically, Cisco this week said it will meld its recently announced Intelligent Edge software with Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub. Cisco Edge Intelligence runs on Cisco’s IoT packages and gathers data from connected devices to create logical flows Read More
Source: msdynamicsworld.com Hybrid cloud—environments that blend public and private cloud—are a central part of the modern IT landscape, particularly as organizations of all sizes work to incorporate legacy systems into future-looking digital strategies and while meeting regulatory requirements. Although well-established, hybrid cloud is often poorly understood by IT departments, CIOs and partners, and its long-term Read More
Source: it.toolbox.com OpsRamp, a SaaS platform for discovery, monitoring, management, and automation of modern digital hybrid infrastructure, announced OpsQ, a capability for first response and incident remediation. OpsQ uses predictive analysis to reduce resolution time. OpsQ also houses AIOps, which is the AI for IT operations. AIOps provides transparency into machine learning-driven decisions. The release Read More
Source: financialexpress.com During the Mumbai edition of the Future Decoded Summit on February 24, Microsoft revealed the names of several start-ups that it has been working with in India. In the Bengaluru edition, these start-ups showcased their work. Some of these include Elastic Run, Spektacom, Bizongo, Sun Mobility and Bionic Yantra. Elastic Run built a Read More
Source: finance.yahoo.com SINGAPORE, Feb. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Microsoft today awarded Team Hollo from Hong Kong and Nutone from Japan the top prize following an intense finale against 8 other teams across the region at the 2020 Imagine Cup Asia finals. The competition is designed to inspire students to use their imagination and passion for technology to create innovative solutions that Read More
Source: finance.yahoo.com ClearDATA®, the leader in healthcare public cloud security, compliance and privacy, today expanded their ClearDATA Comply™ Software as a Service (SaaS) compliance management product to include Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Services. With this new addition to the ClearDATA portfolio of products, more healthcare providers, payers and life sciences organizations can adopt Azure’s Infrastructure as Read More
Source: customerthink.com Machine learning as a service (MLaaS) is a set of cloud services that machine learning providers offer as a part of cloud computing services. MLaaS providers offer tools including face recognition, data visualization, application programming interface (APIs), predictive analytics, natural language processing, and deep learning. The main attraction of these services is that, Read More
Source: colombogazette.com Govipola, the cloud-based mobile app designed to facilitate direct selling platforms for fruit and vegetable farmers—a move aimed at cutting out middlemen and containing food inflation in Sri Lanka, will run on Microsoft Azure, a collection of cloud-based services for building reliable, scalable, and maintainable applications. The platform lowers the total cost of Read More
Source: sg.channelasia.tech Microsoft has released DeepSpeed, a new deep learning optimisation library for PyTorch, that is designed to reduce memory use and train models with better parallelism on existing hardware. According to a Microsoft Research blog post announcing the new framework, DeepSpeed improves PyTorch model training through a memory optimisation technology that increases the number of possible parameters Read More
Source: infoworld.com Microsoft has released DeepSpeed, a new deep learning optimization library for PyTorch, that is designed to reduce memory use and train models with better parallelism on existing hardware. According to a Microsoft Research blog post announcing the new framework, DeepSpeed improves PyTorch model training through a memory optimization technology that increases the number of possible parameters Read More
Source: zdnet.com A year ago, we spoke of Oracle’s positioning of its cloud as a second generation, both literally and figuratively. It’s no coincidence that Oracle’s cloud unit is based in Seattle and counts many AWS and Azure alumni among its team. A year later, Oracle has an agreement to link up to Microsoft Azure Read More
Source: indulgexpress.com As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella emphasized on keeping Azure Cloud secure with integrated end-to-endidentity, security and compliance solutions, cybersecurity firm Check Point revealed that it identified twomajor security flaws in Microsoft Azure last year which have now been fixed. The researchers at Israel-based Check Point discovered that a user on the Azure network Read More
Source: oilandgasmiddleeast.com Petrofac has chosen Microsoft Azure’s Internet of Things for its Connected Construction platform designed to accelerate digital transformation at its project worksites. “Microsoft’s mission is to empower every individual and organisation on the planet to achieve more,” said Sayed Hashish, general manager, Microsoft UAE. “Petrofac serves some of the largest oil, gas and Read More
Source: newsgram.com As Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella emphasized on keeping Azure Cloud secure with integrated end-to-end identity, security and compliance solutions, cybersecurity firm Check Point on Thursday revealed that it identified two major security flaws in Microsoft Azure last year which have now been fixed. The researchers at Israel-based Check Point discovered that a user Read More
Source: infoq.com Microsoft’s Azure Machine Learning team recently open-sourced their contribution to the ONNX Runtime library for improving the performance of the natural language processing (NLP) model BERT. With the optimizations, the model’s inference latency on the SQUAD benchmark sped up 17x. Senior program manager Emma Ning gave an overview of the results in a Read More
Source: cbronline.com Filter out the noise… As computer vision and machine learning get more powerful, businesses are using live video streaming analytics to add value to their operations — from assessing flaws on production lines, to conducting dynamic crowd analysis, or more prosaically, digital doorbell firms sending alerts for package delivery. Analysing video footage in Read More
Source: data-economy.com The move follows strategic cloud services deals that the Indian firm has signed with both IBM and Google in recent times. India-headquartered IT services player HCL Technologies has formed its dedicated HCL Microsoft Business Unit focused on supplying Microsoft cloud technologies, along with those around IoT and artificial intelligence. The Microsoft unit will Read More
Source: healthcareitnews.com Electronic health record giant Epic Systems has been notifying customers that it no longer plans to pursue integrations with Google Cloud, and will instead focus on integrating into platforms offered by Amazon Web Services and Microsoft’s Azure service, according to a report from CNBC. That report notes that “insufficient interest” from Epic customers in Read More
Source: datacenterdynamics.com Microsoft has promised that by 2030 it will be carbon negative, and by 2050 it will have removed all the carbon it has emitted since its founding in 1975. To become negative, the company will have to not just reduce its carbon emissions and shift to renewable resources, but actually offset its carbon Read More
Source: cio.eletsonline.com As many as 54 tech startups have been selected under Microsoft India’s ‘Highway to a Hundred Unicorns’ programme, which was launched by the tech-giant to engage with innovators and entrepreneurs across Tier-2 cities to help them scale their businesses. “The entrepreneurial energy of startups is rising well beyond the known metropolitan hubs and is Read More
Source: martechseries.com LG Powers Automotive Infotainment and Building Management Systems with Microsoft Azure Cloud and AI Technologies LG Electronics (LG) is working with Microsoft to build its automotive infotainment systems, building management systems and other business-to-business collaborations. As announced at CES 2020, LG will leverage Microsoft Azure and AI services to accelerate the digital transformation of Read More
Source: msdynamicsworld.com The 2020s are now underway, but for the Microsoft Azure world, it’s been a slow start. As 2019 drew to a close, both of the big holidays this season fell in the middle of the week, meaning a nearly two week lull with few announcements from Microsoft or its partners and ISVs. With Read More
Source: techiexpert.com The dawn of cloud computing has proven to be an essential event in this digital era. Having an on-site data centre is not a necessity now. It has led to substantial cost savings and improved agility for organizations. A new model of business has emerged called the Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) model. Here a third-party service Read More
Source: analyticsindiamag.com Cloud technology and cloud computing has been helping enterprises streamline their businesses for a while now. Whether it be data management, data storage or data processing, everything can be swiftly handled nowadays, thanks to the cloud. Hybrid cloud engagements are also becoming more popular over the last few years for faster and better Read More
Source: aithority.com Baker Hughes, C3.ai, and Microsoft Corp. announced an alliance to bring enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) solutions to the energy industry on Microsoft Azure, an industry-leading cloud computing platform. This alliance will enable customers to streamline the adoption of scalable AI solutions for the energy industry that help promote safety, reliability, and sustainability. It leverages the Read More
Source: channelpartnersonline.com As 2019 comes to a close, it’s time to round up some of the cloud news that flew a little under the radar during the last few weeks of the year. AWS, GCP, Azure Neck and Neck in Performance: Report Cockroach Labs has found that the top three public cloud providers are performing almost Read More
Source: insights.dice.com Microsoft’s new tool, part of its Azure cloud platform, wants to make machine learning (ML) a drag-and-drop proposition. In theory, this is a good thing for employees who aren’t mathematically inclined, or who have no background in programming or machine learning; while every organization would like its teams to become machine-learning experts, that’s simply not feasible. Microsoft’s Read More