Share this post: Throughout IBM Think, an important message has resonated everywhere — empowering businesses to overcome vendor lock-in and the freedom of choice to apply IBM technology wherever data resides. Our Watson team made some major announcements this week about making AI models and applications run across any cloud. Today, we are re-stating that […]
Archives for February 2019
How AI and voice-use interfaces can keep people healthy
At the 2019 MIT Space2 workshop, TechRepublic Senior Writer Teena Maddox discusses how voice-use interfaces can be used to keep people healthy, particularly in small, confined spaces with Google’s Cathy Pearl. The following is an edited transcript of the interview. Teena Maddox: Tell me a little bit about what you’re presenting here at the MIT […]
Organizations See the Internet of Things as Both a Cost-saver and a Revenue-generator
Financial returns will be impacted by the complexity of deployments, need for new skills and security considerations. The Internet of Things has the potential to deliver cost savings and generate new revenues for organizations that can handle IoT’s complexity, build new workforce skills and address heightened security demands, according to a new report released today […]
Maximize throughput with repartitioning in Azure Stream Analytics
Customers love Azure Stream Analytics for its ease of analyzing streams of data in movement, with the ability to set up a running pipeline within five minutes. Optimizing throughput has always been a challenge when trying to achieve high performance in a scenario that can’t be fully parallelized. This occurs when you don’t control the […]
Benefits of using Azure API Management with microservices
The IT industry is experiencing a shift from monolithic applications to microservices-based architectures. The benefits of this new approach include: Independent development and freedom to choose technology – Developers can work on different microservices at the same time and choose the best technologies for the problem they are solving. Independent deployment and release cycle – […]
Security in IoT devices relies on sustained, pervasive attention to detail across the entire threat surface
Cyber-threats are growing every day and what traditionally was seen as a data protection issue in the IT domain is becoming an increasing reality in the machine-to-machine (M2M) domain. Compounding this rise in capability is the rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), writes Robin Duke-Woolley, the chief executive of Beecham Research. In this […]
Fleet IoT offering registers one million devices in 24 hours
The co-founder of Fleet Space Technologies says the registration of one million devices in less than 24 hours to its low-cost satellite network shows the time is right for the Internet of Things. Flavia Tata Nardini, CEO of the South Australian company Fleet Space Technologies, said the company’s Project Galaxy offer to connect devices for […]
Global trade: The role of blockchain-enabled trade finance networks
Share this post: We are in the fourth industrial revolution, according to the World Economic Forum, with the world’s economy changing shape rapidly since the internet came of age. From influencing consumer preference to meeting consumer demand in a timely manner — meaning, from notification of need to gratification of need — is now at […]
3 things you should know about Industrial IoT
The infrastructure around the world becomes more connected each day. We can thank the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for this connectedness, which stretches far beyond fitness bands to connecting machines and devices in industries such as transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, and more. More about IoT The potential remains high for IIoT, but so are the […]
AI, unlivable wages, and a split workforce
Awesome, not awesome.#Awesome“DeepMind specializes in “deep learning,” a type of artificial intelligence that is rapidly changing drug discovery science. A growing number of companies are applying similar methods to other parts of the long, enormously complex process that produces new medicines. These A.I. techniques can speed up many aspects of drug discovery and, in some […]