Source: valuewalk.com This surge in the cloud provider’s revenue speaks at length about the growing interest of companies in cloud technology. And the pace at which the cloud revolution has stormed the industry can no longer be termed as a trend. Instead, has become a long-standing reality that no business – tech or non-tech – Read More
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Source: unite.ai Over the past few months, Microsoft and other companies researching machine learning challenged teams of AI developers to create an AI system that could play Minecraft and find a diamond within the game. As reported by the BBC, while AI platforms have managed to dominate chess and go, but it has struggled to master a task 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: One sector that is expected to boom over the next decade is artificial intelligence. There are many businesses that claim they’re part of AI development, so it’s hard to know which shares will give the clearest exposure to AI and deliver good returns. So, here are a few ideas to think about: BetaShares NASDAQ 100 ETF (ASX: Read More
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
Source:-galusaustralis.com Global Business Intelligence Software Market is forecast to bring about afairly desirable remuneration portfolio by the end of the forecast period.Certainly, the report not only includes a modest growth rate over the forecast time frame but also contains a reliable overview of this business. The study involves overall growth opportunities and valuation currently this market Read More
Source:-cio.comEnterprises will soon have access to Azure Arc and Azure Synapse Analytics, two new services that bolster Microsoft’s cloud offerings. Microsoft’s Ignite event traditionally attracts more from the developer ranks, but the technologies on display are increasingly of relevance to CIOs developing cloud strategies today. At Ignite 2019 in Orlando last week, Microsoft unveiled a Read More
Source:-wccftech.com Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT 148.06 0.51%) has partnered with the UK chipmaker Graphcore to provide cloud-based cutting-edge artificial intelligence solutions that utilize the computing power of specialized chips designed by the British company. “This [move] is very significant for us because it means anyone on the planet can go to Azure and use our technology to Read More
Source: ibtimes.com This is the bold statement that Scientific American gave regarding the matter. In their recent statement, they claimed that what people call nowadays as Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not actually AI, but something else entirely. Sure, we hear the description of AI branded on almost every new tech nowadays. Even on smartphones, companies now love to Read More
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
Source: dailysabah.com urkey is a leading country in its region in terms of investments in artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, according to Microsoft Turkey General Manager Murat Kansu. “With an artificial intelligence technology expenditure of nearly $3.4 billion, Turkey is a country with the largest investment in AI in the last 10 years,” Kansu was cited Read More
Source: wired.com Microsoft’s recent victory in landing a $10 billion Pentagon cloud-computing contract called JEDI could make life more complicated for one of the software giant’s partners: the independent artificial-intelligence research lab OpenAI. OpenAI was created in 2015 by Silicon Valley luminaries including Elon Musk to look to the far horizon, and save the world. The newborn nonprofit said it had Read More
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
Source: rcpmag.com Microsoft launched a private preview of “Project Cortex,” touted as a knowledge network for Microsoft 365 users, as part of this week’s Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla. Project Cortex largely has its roots in SharePoint technology, as described by SharePoint team members in a podcast. An allusion to SharePoint’s role also was made by Read More
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
Source: devclass.com Microsoft will launch a raft of new features for its Azure Stream Analytics platform in preview next week, though you’ll have to wait at least a few weeks for general availability. Microsoft pitches Azure Stream Analytics as a platform for quickly developing and deploying complex serverless analytics on data streams. Top of the 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: NEW DELHI: Beating frontrunner Amazon, Microsoft on Friday won the lucrative $10 billion Cloud-computing contract from the US Department of Defense known as “JEDI”, the short-form for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud project. Exactly a year ago — on October 25, 2018 — the software giant’s CEO Satya Nadella addressed ethical concerns surrounding Read More
Source: zdnet.com Melbourne-based gold producer Newcrest Mining, together with Microsoft and Insight Enterprises, has rolled out cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies at its underground Cadia Valley gold mine in New South Wales to monitor and manage crushed ore bin levels. The decision to deploy the monitoring technologies was made as 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
Source: fiercehealthcare.com Insurance giant Humana and Microsoft announced a seven-year strategic partnership to use cloud and artificial intelligence technologies to build predictive solutions and intelligent automation to support Humana members and their care teams. Humana plans to use Microsoft’s technology muscle, specifically its Azure cloud, Azure AI and Microsoft 365 collaboration technologies, as well as interoperability standards Read More
Source: zacks.com Cognex (CGNX – Free Report) recently announced the acquisition of Seoul-based SUALAB, a developer of deep learning-based vision software. Although the financial terms of the acquisition have been kept under wraps, per a Pulse article the transaction price is estimated to be $168.6 million. Deep learning allows Cognex to solve the most complex vision application operations in factories Read More
Source: theregister.co.uk Ahead of Microsoft’s Ignite conference next month, the tech goliath has announced Dapr, now available as an Alpha preview, a runtime to simplify developing microservices. Dapr is not a replacement for other runtimes or frameworks such as .NET or Java. Rather, it “injects a side-car container/process to each compute unit”, according to the docs, exposing 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
Source: sify.com Bangkok: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a helpful tool for governments in the Asia Pacific region to deliver public services, revealed a new UN-Google report on Wednesday. The study by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and Google cited case studies highlighting the importance of Read More
Source: techcrunch.com Microsoft today announced two new open-source projects: Dapr, a portable, event-driven runtime that takes some of the complexity out of building microservices, and the Open Application Model (OAM), a specification that allows developers to define the resources their applications need to run on Kubernetes clusters and which Microsoft developed in cooperation with Alibaba Cloud. As Read More
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
Source: forbes.com It’s been more than eight years since Facebook’s first data scientist told a Bloomberg reporter that “the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” By the time the data scientist, Jeff Hammerbacher, delivered that infamous criticism in 2011, he was already a few years removed from the data team at Read More
Source: venturebeat.com In an interview with AVSIM, the head of Microsoft’s upcoming Microsoft Flight Simulator stated that the team will “try our darnedest” to add VR support. Last week, we reported on Microsoft telling YouTubers at their preview event that the sim will not support VR at launch, but “maybe” later on. Microsoft Flight Simulator was announced at E3 Read More
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