As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption, it is becoming increasingly important to manage cloud costs across the organization. Last September, we announced the public preview of a comprehensive native cost management solution for enterprise customers. We are now excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Azure Cost Management experience that helps organizations visualize, manage, and […]
Archives for February 2019
Your Guide To Current Trends And Challenges In Data Mining
The state of data mining is eager to improve as we slowly step into the new year. Organizations of all shapes and sizes belonging to both the public and the governmental sector are focusing on digging deeper into organized data to help perfect future investments as well as the customer experience being served. Data mining […]
Microfinance and alternative data meets the world of Blockchain
Background A history of the Microfinance industry and the rise of MDMFIs Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have been around for a long time. Initially coined in 1970s following the success of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, the basic objective of an MFI is to enable traditionally unbanked individuals (and businesses) to obtain access to capital through the […]
Comparing Feature Selection Scripts
In this series about feature selection, the first three posts covered three different WhizzML scripts that can help you with this task: Recursive Feature Elimination, Boruta and Best-First Feature Selection. We explained how they work and the needed parameters for each one of them, applying the scripts to the system failures in trucks dataset described in the first post. As […]
Storage for blockchain and modern distributed database processing
Share this post: IBM Blockchain is transforming enterprise capabilities across industries, fostering new insights and decisions: from trust and transparency in our food using IBM Food Trust™, to digitization and transparency of trade using TradeLens, to transforming digital identity into trusted identity using Identity, to redefining access to money for people and businesses everywhere using […]
World’s Largest Utility Deploys RealWear Voice-Controlled Hands-Free Wearable Computer
China’s State Grid boosts worker safety compliance and productivity for high-voltage live-line maintenance using state-of-the-art RealWear HMT-1 Android head-mounted hands-free wearable computer. RealWear, Inc. today announced that State Grid, the world’s largest utility, selected RealWear as its supplier of hands-free computers for its line workers and electrical engineers to improve safety and productivity. State Grid […]
Build your own deep learning models on Azure Data Science Virtual Machines
As a modern developer, you may be eager to build your own deep learning models but aren’t quite sure where to start. If this is you, I recommend you take a look at the deep learning course from fast.ai. This new fast.ai course helps software developers start building their own state-of-the-art deep learning models. Developers […]
Best practices to consider before deploying a network virtual appliance
A network virtual appliance (NVA) is a virtual appliance primarily focused on network functions virtualization. A typical network virtual appliance involves various layers four to seven functions like firewall, WAN optimizer, application delivery controllers, routers, load balancers, IDS/IPS, proxies, SD-WAN edge, and more. While the public cloud may provide some of these functionalities natively, it […]
Investing in our partners’ success
Today Gavriella Schuster, CVP of Microsoft’s Partner organization, spoke about our longstanding commitment to partners, and new investments to enable partners to accelerate customer success. As we shared in our recent earnings, Azure is growing at 76 percent, driven by a combination of continued innovation, strong customer adoption across industries and a global ecosystem of […]
IoT is the lineman for the county
MultiTech designs, develops and manufactures data communications equipment – cellular and LoRAWAN modems, routers and gateways – for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Bill Ingle, a senior analyst at Beecham Research, interviews Sara Brown, the vice president of marketing, and Gregg Zastrow, the senior manager of programmes and partnerships, at MultiTech, to understand how […]