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
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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: 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: 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: techcrunch.com It’s one thing to develop a working machine learning model, it’s another to put it to work in an application. Cortex Labs is an early-stage startup with some open-source tooling designed to help data scientists take that last step. The company’s founders were students at Berkeley when they observed that one of the 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: crn.com.au Google partner Servian has revealed that it was behind “Monty”, an AI tool Fox Sports used to predict when wickets would fall during cricket matches, and has already delivered an upgrade to the tool. Monty was developed in 2019 and works by using historical data from previous matches as well as live data, Read More
Source: theverge.com AI allows machines to carry out all sorts of tasks that used to be the domain of humans alone. Need to run quality control on a factory production line? Set up an AI-powered camera to spot defects. How about interpreting medical data? Machine learning can identify potential tumors from scans and flag them 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: dqindia.com From the emerge of cognitive intelligence, in-memory-computing, fault-tolerant quantum computing, new materials-based semiconductor devices, to faster growth of industrial IoT, large-scale collaboration between machines, production-grade blockchain applications, modular chip design, and artificial intelligence technologies to protect data privacy, more technology advancements and breakthroughs are expected to gain momentum and generate big impacts the Read More
Source: dbta.com From data lakes and the cloud, to machine learning and artificial intelligence, the world of big data and analytics continues to evolve. At the same time, the need for improved governance and security practices is also intensifying as data privacy concerns and new regulations like GDPR and CCPA require new approaches for responsible Read More
Source: Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google owns the world’s largest search engine, web browser, and mobile operating system. Yet it controlled just 4% of the public cloud services market last year, according to Gartner. That put it in fourth place behind Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), and Alibaba — which controlled 48%, 16%, and 8% of that market, respectively. Google still believes that it can challenge Amazon and 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: newsgram.com These are still early days for Cloud as globally, the enterprises still reserve 97 per cent of their IT spend for on-premises jobs and devote just 3 per cent to the Cloud. In India, the story is no different but with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) now driving Cloud, the year Read More
Source: itbrief.com.au Suddenly we are inundated with Artificial Intelligence (AI): smart kettles, smart houses and cities, self-parking cars… and every cloud service now seems to be claiming some AI or Machine Learning (ML) capability. So how come a discussion panel at this year’s NetEvents Global IT Summit, San Jose, USA, was entitled How long is Read More
Source: siecledigital.fr To secure cloud-native architectures, Google has developed BeyondProd. This system will notably allow him to connect from unapproved networks, without resorting to a VPN. After working on BeyondCorp a few years ago, we can therefore imagine significant progress for BeyondProd. BeyondProd would be an extension of the BeyondCorp Zero Trust system A few years ago, Google was Read More
Source: venturebeat.com Earlier this year, Google took the wraps off of AutoML Natural Language, an extension of its Cloud AutoML machine learning platform to the natural language processing domain. After a months-long beta, AutoML today launched in general availability for customers globally, with support for tasks like classification, sentiment analysis, and entity extraction, as well as a Read More
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
Source: techrepublic.com Indeed released a new report on Thursday detailing the main tech skills trends in the enterprise. These trends cover multiple facets of the tech landscape including web development, cloud computing, and big data, the report found. Indeed’s Tech Skills Explorer Part 3: Big Picture Tech Skill Trends report analyzed a list of more than 500 Read More
Source: helpnetsecurity.com PagerDuty, a global leader in digital operations management, announced PagerDuty for Cloud Operations, a new solution to help IT and DevOps teams transform their operations practices and capabilities as they move applications and services to the cloud. The solution helps companies accelerate their journey across the cloud adoption lifecycle from workload migration to Read More
Source: techcrunch.com Today, Amazon announced a new approach that it says will put machine learning technology in reach of more developers and line of business users. Amazon has been making a flurry of announcements ahead of its re:Invent customer conference next week in Las Vegas. While the company offers plenty of tools for data scientists to build Read More
Source: itnews.com.au Australia Post’s adoption of microservices and cloud via a digital transformation allowed it to move faster, but also created a complex environment of interdependencies and a need to establish “observability” across that. When Post kicked off its digital transformation in 2013, the overarching goal was speed. “Our time to market was incredibly slow Read More
Source: supplychainbrain.com According to a survey published by Dresner Advisory Services, over 50% of companies are using big-data analytics. A closer look reveals that the adoption rate varies significantly by industry, with financial services and telecommunications leading the way, followed by education and healthcare. But the top five includes no mention of logistics. When one Read More
Source: artificialintelligence-news.com Google has issued several updates for its Cloud AI Platform which aims to make it ‘faster and more flexible’ for running machine learning workloads. Cloud AI Platform is Google’s machine learning platform-as-a-service (ML PaaS) designed for AI developers, engineers, and data scientists. The platform is end-to-end and supports the full development cycle from Read More
Source: searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com Days after Microsoft won the $10 billion JEDI contract over AWS, industry observers are still unpacking its ramifications and the forces that led to the Department of Defense’s surprise decision. “We’re surprised about this conclusion,” an AWS spokesperson said in a statement. “AWS is the clear leader in cloud computing, and a detailed assessment Read More
Source: zdnet.com Today’s Earth scientists are spending less time standing in fields collecting soil samples, and more time behind a computer screen. Most geoscience data is automatically collected by sensors and satellites. The big challenge is making sense of all that data so that scientists can get back to what they do best: Observing the Read More
Source: hpcwire.com Oct. 22, 2019 — NVIDIA with Microsoft Corp. today announced a technology collaboration focused on intelligent edge computing, designed to help industries better manage and gain insights from the growing flood of data created by retail stores, warehouses, manufacturing facilities, connected buildings, urban infrastructure and other environments. By enabling closer integration between Microsoft Azure and Read More
Ssource: barrons.com Microsoft has a key ally in its fight for business as companies move more software to the cloud: the people who run corporate information-technology departments. In a Thursday note, Morgan Stanley analyst Keith Weiss reiterated his confidence in Microsoft’s (ticker: MSFT) future, based on the bank’s latest survey of companies’ IT heads. Although uncertainty about the economy has weighed Read More