Structure Health Monitoring system with LoRa Technology monitors buildings for a variety of safety indicators in real-time. Semtech Corporation announced that Polysense Technologies Inc., an innovative leader in enterprise Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for fiber and wireless sensing, has built Semtech’s LoRa® devices and technology into its Structure Health Monitoring (SHM) system to enable […]
Hyperledger Fabric updates now available
In late 2017, a growing number of customers were interested in using Hyperledger Fabric (HLF) to build their applications on Azure. At this time, we announced support for this popular offering through the Azure Marketplace. Over the early part of this year we added support for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and the Go extension […]
Why a data network will drive the energy industry forward in 2019
Digital transformation continues to be the keynote of the coming year for operators across the oil and gas sectors. Digitalisation is nothing new to the sector, of course, says Ron Beck, Energy Industry marketing director at AspenTech. Refineries have, for example, been pursuing it for more than thirty years, with technologies like advanced process control (APC) well-established […]
Analyze data in Azure Data Explorer using KQL magic for Jupyter Notebook
Exploring data is like solving a puzzle. You create queries and receive instant satisfaction when you discover insights, just like adding pieces to complete a puzzle. Imagine you have to repeat the same analysis multiple times, use libraries from an open-source community, share your steps and output with others, and save your work as an […]
Security for healthcare through cloud agents and virtual patching
Healthcare organizations depend on data-driven decisions. To enable better decisions and better health outcomes, healthcare organizations are moving to the cloud. There, the latest advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics can be more easily tested and implemented. For a healthcare organization, security and protection of data is a primary value, but solutions can […]
Microsoft and Citus Data: Providing the best PostgreSQL service in the cloud
Today, we announced the acquisition of Citus Data, an innovative open source extension to scale out PostgreSQL databases without the need to re-architect existing applications. Citus Data delivers unparalleled performance and scalability by intelligently distributing data and queries across multiple nodes, which makes sharding simple. Because Citus Data is packaged as an extension (not a […]
Intelligent Vending Machine Market to see 15% growth to hit US$30 Billion by 2024
According to a new research report by the market research and strategy consulting firm, Global Market Insights, Inc, the Intelligent Vending Machine Market to hit US$30 Billion by 2024. The intelligent vending machines market is experiencing high growth due to a rise in the development of the energy-efficient solutions by manufacturers that will help companies […]
Regulatory compliance dashboard in Azure Security Center now available
Meeting regulatory compliance obligations and complying with all the requirements of benchmark standards can be a significant challenge in a cloud or hybrid environment. Identifying which assessments to perform, evaluating the status, and resolving the gaps can be a very daunting task. Azure Security Center (ASC) now helps streamline this process with the new regulatory […]
Passwords have had their day: Why we can expect an accelerated shift towards biometrics in 2019
This year will mark the 50th anniversary of the first ever internet transmission in 1969. As we near this milestone, says Andrew Shikiar, chief marketing officer of the FIDO Alliance, contentions regarding privacy and security online abound. While the problem of authentication is nothing new, it has risen to the forefront in recent years as numerous high-profile data […]
Japan to Launch Blockchain Payment Experiment for Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Japan’s famously conservative financial system is set to receive the biggest shakeup in decades as one of the world’s largest financial institutions is building a blockchain-based consumer network designed to handle a million transactions per second in time for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. <![CDATA[ ]]> The MIT Technology Review reports that Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group […]