The infrastructure around the world is being linked together via sensors, machine learning, and analytics, which means that industrial Internet of Things (IoT) deployments are increasing. This should come to no surprise since industrial IoT holds great potential for enhancing quality control, sustainable practices, supply chain, data analysis, inefficiencies and more. More about IoT What […]
Meet the Hack-a-Hogs: Student innovation in blockchain for food trust
Share this post: It was late on a Saturday afternoon and dozens of students were darting across the hall. Ready or not, they had to two minutes to submit their final pitches before judging would begin. It was the second annual University of Arkansas Blockchain Hackathon, bringing together over 200 students from across disciplines in […]
IBM annouces an innovative Track&Trace Container Tracking solution for Groupe PSA with Sigfox
The “Track&Trace” solution for container tracking relies on Sigfox’ international network and IBM Watson IoT. IBM announce with Sigfox the launch within Groupe PSA of the innovative “Track&Trace” solution for the digitalization of package (container) tracking between suppliers and assembly plants. This solution, based on IBM’s cloud-based Internet of Things technologies and Sigfox’ international “0G” […]
Sierra Wireless Device-to-Cloud IoT Solution Enables Unimar to Deploy Tower Lighting Systems and Improve Flight Safety
Unimar’s obstruction lighting and custom control system uses Sierra Wireless AirLink RV50 gateway, SIM and AirVantage IoT Platform to alert aviation authorities to potential hazards along flight routes. Sierra Wireless today announced that Unimar, a worldwide supplier of tower and obstruction lighting products, has selected its device-to-cloud solution to connect and manage critical lighting and […]
Announcing the general availability of Lsv2-series Azure Virtual Machines
After wrapping up a successful preview with fantastic customer engagement, we are excited to officially announce the general availability of the Lsv2-series Azure Virtual Machines (VMs). Customers from all over the globe and across a broad range of industries participated in the Lsv2-series VMs preview during the second half of 2018. General overview The Lsv2-series […]
Powering the Next Wave of Intelligent Devices with Machine Learning – Part 2
In the first part of this series, we introduced the BigML Node-RED bindings and showed how to install and use them to create a simple BigML-powered flow in Node-RED. In this second installment, we are going to create a second flow which will give us the opportunity to consider in greater detail important concepts such […]
Smart utility challenges must be addressed in pursuit of the smart cities dream
All over the world, societies and industries rely on the supply of energy and water. For energy and particularly electricity, in the past two centuries this has come from industrial scale generation based on fossil fuels. As of the second decade of the new century, it has become a matter of urgency to address challenges […]
Transitioning big data workloads to the cloud: Best practices from Unravel Data
Migrating on-premises Apache Hadoop® and Spark workloads to the cloud remains a key priority for many organizations. In my last post, I shared “Tips and tricks for migrating on-premises Hadoop infrastructure to Azure HDInsight.” In this series, one of HDInsight’s partners, Unravel Data, will share their learnings, best practices, and guidance based on their insights from […]
Fit and forget: The threat posed by unconfigured IoT
The march of ‘smart’ technology has seen every conceivable device in our homes and offices ‘enhanced’ with some form of connectivity. While this offers additional functionality for some, says Ken Munro, partner at Pen Test Partners, for others these smart enhancements are surplus to requirement. After all, why wirelessly connect your washing machine if you’re happy to use […]
Announcing the general availability of Query Store for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Since our preview announcement, hundreds of customers have been enabling Query Store to provide insight on query performance. We’re excited to share the general availability of Query Store worldwide for Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Query Store automatically captures a history of queries, plans, and runtime statistics and retains them for your review when monitoring your […]