A new way to integrate with resources in your virtual network We strive with every service to provide experiences that significantly improve the development experience. We’re always looking for common pain points that everybody building software in the cloud deals with. And once we find those pain points, we build best-of-class software to address the […]
Archives for February 2019
Instantly restore your Azure Virtual Machines using Azure Backup
Today, we are delighted to share the release of Azure Backup Instant Restore capability for Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Instant Restore helps Azure Backup customers quickly recover VMs from the snapshots stored along with the disks. In addition, users get complete flexibility in configuring the retention range of snapshots at the backup policy level depending […]
Azure Stack laaS – part two
This blog post was co-authored by David Armour, Principal Program Manager, Azure Stack. Start with what you already have Every organization has a unique journey to the cloud. This journey is based on the organization’s history, business specifics, culture, and maybe most importantly, their starting point. While it can be hard for some to say […]
Azure Marketplace new offers – Volume 32
Accelerate Advanced Analytics: 4-week Assessment: This engagement by Applied Cloud Systems involves an assessment of your analytics capabilities, a period of incubation in Azure, and a path forward. This is a four-week assessment for small to medium-sized organizations. Accelerate Advanced Analytics: 8-week Assessment: This engagement by Applied Cloud Systems involves an assessment of your analytics […]
YouTube’s algorithms and the spread of pedophilia
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“Applying just a bit of strain to a piece of semiconductor or other crystalline material can deform the orderly arrangement of atoms in its structure enough to cause dramatic changes in its properties, such as the way it conducts electricity, transmits light, or conducts heat. Now, a team of researchers at MIT and […]
Mobile World Congress 2019: Secret Accounts, Robot Teachers and Retiring at 73
MWC has chosen the theme of Intelligent Connectivity this year. At face value, it is an obvious choice given the explosion of what I call the Fifth Wave of Computing i.e. the combined impact of IoT, AI and 5G. But for me it also speaks to an idea taking us beyond devices and data – […]
2019 Oscars Predictions: Results Are In
The 91st Academy Awards this Sunday, the first without a host in 30 years, proceeded without a hitch and seemed to sit well with the worldwide audience. For the third year in a row, we applied the BigML Machine Learning platform to predict the winners. This year, we got 4 out of 8 right for […]
myDevices to Connect Hundreds of LoRaWAN Sensors to Microsoft Azure
myDevices, the IoT solutions company, today announced a powerful collaboration with Microsoft that empowers users to onboard hundreds of LoRaWAN devices to instantly send data directly to Microsoft Azure. myDevices has amassed one of the most extensive known catalogs of pre-configured LoRaWAN sensors and gateways, consisting of nearly 200 different devices from over 50 hardware […]
How blockchain could change higher education
Share this post: If 2017 was the peak of euphoria and enthusiasm for everything crypto and blockchain related, 2018 may have represented the opposite as 1) prices for crytocurrencies declined by over 50 percent during the year, and 2) some high profile blockchain-based projects foundered. Even with the hiccups and obstacles, many of which are […]
AWS comes to Sprint Curiosity IoT platform for enterprise traffic routing, processing, data storage
Amazon Web Services will be integrated with Sprint’s distributed IoT core network. Sprint will bring Amazon Web Services (AWS) storage and Internet of Things (IoT) services to its Curiosity IoT platform, the telecom provider announced on Monday. The move will offer enterprise customers optimized traffic routing, processing, and storage of IoT data, according to a […]