SOURCE:-siliconangle Microsoft Corp. today previewed a new Azure instance for training artificial intelligence models that targets the emerging class of advanced, ultra-large neural networks being pioneered by the likes of OpenAI. The instance, called the ND A100 v4, is being touted by Microsoft as its most powerful AI-optimized virtual machine to date. The ND A100 Read More

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Source: beckershospitalreview.com Microsoft announced July 8 a new artificial intelligence tool for its cloud platform Azure that allows developers to analyze unstructured medical data, including clinical notes, clinical trial protocols and medical publications.  Microsoft’s Text Analytics for health allows researchers, data analysts and medical professionals to detect words and phrases from unstructured text and connect them to Read More

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Source: expresscomputer.in Cyient today announced it has joined Microsoft Azure Certified for Internet of Things (IoT), ensuring customers get IoT solutions up and running quickly with hardware and software that has been pre-tested and verified to work with Microsoft Azure IoT services. Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT allows businesses to reach customers where they are, Read More

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Source: techrepublic.com The UK government’s Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has secured an agreement with Microsoft to offer public sector organizations discounted rates for Azure. Billed as the Azure Pricing Arrangement (APA), the agreement builds on the Digital Transformation Arrangement (DTA) than has existed between Microsoft and the CCS since 2018 and runs until April 2021. Read More

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Source: mashviral.com About six months after its announcement at the Ignite conference last fall, Microsoft leveraged a group of MVP analysts and professionals to delve deeper into the Synapse Analytics Analytics service. As noted in Andrew’s coverage last fall, Azure Synapse Analytics is a rebrand and evolution of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, expanding its footprint Read More

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Source: venturebeat.com Cnvrg.io, a data science startup headquartered in Jerusalem and New York, today released a community version of its machine learning automation platform designed to help enterprises manage and scale AI. CEO Yochay Ettun says the release was motivated in part by the influx of social distancing and remote work stemming from the COVID-19 Read More

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Source: venturebeat.com Microsoft’s writing assistant for Microsoft 365 users is getting new AI-powered features like Rewrite Suggestions, which lets you highlight a sentence and then right-click for multiple AI-generated revision ideas, and is coming to Chrome and Edge browser extensions and Outlook.com. AI Editor can also now review text for more gender-related inclusivity and issues Read More

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Source: devops.com 2nd Watch today launched a managed DevOps service based on the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) platform from GitLab that it will operate on behalf of customers in addition to coaching them on how to adopt best DevOps practices. Stefana Muller, a senior product manager, said the 2nd Watch Managed DevOps service combines the managed and Read More

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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: 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

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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

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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

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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

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Source: msdynamicsworld.com We begin our look back at 2019 in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem with the most popular and important stories of the year. Expanding customer adoption, big wins and open-source initiatives Microsoft continued to secure big wins and broker new partnerships across industries in 2019. Perhaps one of the biggest—and most surprising—wins came at Read More

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Source: ventsmagazine.com Incredible transformations are happening across industries through the application of AI. They have a front-row seat with customers who are successfully digitizing core business processes and creating more engaging and personalized customer experiences. With Microsoft’s AI platform, Azure AI, their vision continues to center on helping their valuable customers innovate with purpose, using Read More

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Source: cloudcomputing-news.net At this year’s Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella placed the focus on consistent developer experiences in multi- and hybrid-cloud, alongside the announcements of new initiatives for “cloud-delivered quantum computing.” Nadella, in his keynote speech in Orlando, also emphasized the role of a consistent and reliable management platform across various cloud environments Read More

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Source: searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com In a sign of the cloud market’s maturity, vendors are partnering to offer multi-tiered service integrations. Vendor alliances, such as a Microsoft and Oracle partnership, could help enterprises with multi-cloud deployment models. If the partnership is successful, customers could glean greater power and flexibility for critical groups such as data analysts, application developers Read More

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Source: zdnet.com Microsoft this morning announced a partnership with multiple companies for quantum computing capabilities running in its Azure cloud computing service during its “Ignite” developer conference, with one of the partners being industrial giant Honeywell.  Honeywell’s head of its quantum effort, Tony Uttley, spoke with ZDNet about the announcement, explaining how quantum computing is on an Read More

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Source: neowin.net In May, Microsoft released the Robot Operating System for Windows 10 IoT Enterprise. In the same month, the tech giant also introduced IoT Plug and Play as part of its new intelligent edge offerings. More recently, a cross-Azure IoT collaboration with IoT Messaging was unveiled to simplify location and spatial intelligence usage. Today, during a keynote at CEATEC Read More

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source: tech.africa Microsoft South Africa has announced the availability of Python support in Azure Functions for South Africans. This means that developers can now build their serverless functions using Python 3.6, based on the open-source and cross-platform Functions 2.0 runtime, and publish to a Linux-based hosting platform in Azure. This ensures an end-to-end experience for Read More

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Source: redmondmag.com Azure Sentinel, Microsoft’s cloud-based security information and event management (SIEM) solution, has reached the “general availability” release stage, Microsoft announced on Tuesday. The solution had been at the preview stage back in February, but now it’s deemed ready by Microsoft for commercial use. Microsoft worked with its partners to fine-tune Azure Sentinel, and got “feedback Read More

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Source: business-review.eu This service will provide end-to-end, service-level agreement (SLA)-based media delivery services on Azure, giving broadcasters and media companies the flexibility and scalability that are essential in today’s rapidly changing media environment. Bringing the most relevant content to the cloud and providing innovative services covering the entire video value chain – ingest, playout, and Read More

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Source: mesalliance.org Microsoft reported stronger results for its fourth quarter (ended June 30) that it said were once again helped by continued growth in its Azure cloud computing business. Revenue in Microsoft’s overall Intelligent Cloud business grew 19% from a year earlier, to $11.4 billion, the company said July 18. Within that business, server products Read More

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Source:- securityboulevard.com As enterprises move more data and applications to the cloud, security becomes an even more a foundational component because, in order to meet industry compliance requirements, and map to an organization’s larger security strategy, it must be built into the overall cloud platform. When security is deployed as an afterthought, it often needs to Read More

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Source:- worldchronicle24.com Iguazio has announced that it is bringing its operations to Microsoft-owned Azure cloud and Azure Stack on-premises platform. The Data Science platform enables data scientists to take machine-learning models from data assimilation to testing, training, and production. The company has accumulated approximately $48 million in funding until now with nearly 80 employees. The company Read More

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