Pay for what you use In the virtualization days I used to pad all my requests for virtual machines (VM) to get the largest size possible. Since decisions and requests took time, I would ask for more than I required just so I wouldn’t have delays if I needed more capacity. This resulted in a […]
Archives for March 2019
Hadoop Solutions Make Frugal Living and Extreme Couponing Easier than Ever
Frugal living has become a major fad since the onset of the recession in 2008. In particular, extreme couponing has become a hobby that is practiced by tens of thousands of people all over the United States. Consumers saved $3.1 billion with coupons in 2017. However, in the quest to save money through couponing, […]
Azure Sphere ecosystem accelerates innovation
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to help businesses cut costs and create new revenue streams, but it also brings an unsettling amount of risk. No one wants a fridge that gets shut down by ransomware, a toy that spies on children, or a production line that’s brought to a halt through an entry point […]
High-Throughput with Azure Blob Storage
I am happy to announce that High-Throughput Block Blob (HTBB) is globally enabled in Azure Blob Storage. HTBB provides significantly improved and instantaneous write throughput when ingesting larger block blobs, up to the storage account limits for a single blob. We have also removed the guesswork in naming your objects, enabling you to focus on […]
What’s new in Azure IoT Central – March 2019
In IoT Central, our aim is to simplify IoT. We want to make sure your IoT data drives meaningful actions and visualizations. In this post, I will share new features now available in Azure IoT Central including embedded Microsoft Flow, updates to the Azure IoT Central connector, Azure Monitor action groups, multiple dashboards, and localization […]
Accelerating innovation: Enabling IIoT at the device edge with Machbase and Arm
Interview with Andrew Kim, CEO, Machbase Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is often referred to as Industry 4.0: a major upgrade of today’s industrial operations. Real-time analytics, data value and operational decisions are key goals for Operations Technology (OT) deployed within the industry. However, for industrial applications to scale, stay connected, be secure and process […]
Big Data is Transforming the Future of WordPress Hosting
Forbes contributor Kalev Leetaru recently wrote a fantastic article about the intersection of big data and website hosting. Leetaru notes that big data and cloud technology have led to the evolution of web hosting services. Cloud technology is changing the logistics of many traditional hosting plans. WordPress hosting is a prime example. How Big Data […]
Facebook’s AI and Far Right Terrorism in New Zealand
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“An AI dying algorithm portends major changes for the field of palliative care… A team at Google, in collaboration with three academic medical centers, used input from more than 216,000 hospitalizations of 114,000 patients and nearly 47 billion data points to do a lot of [deep neural networks] predicting: whether a patient […]
Automating Linear Regressions with WhizzML & Python Bindings
This blog post, the fifth of our series of six posts about Linear regressions, focuses on those users that want to automate their Machine Learning workflows using programming languages. If you follow the BigML blog, you may already be familiar with WhizzML, BigML’s domain-specific language for automating Machine Learning workflows, implementing high-level Machine Learning algorithms, […]
Review of LPWA deployments in the Middle East
An article by Karim Yaici, Senior Analyst, Research at Analysys Mason. “Operators in the Middle East should increase businesses’ awareness of LPWA services, develop simple solutions and nurture the developer ecosystem to support the adoption of such services.” IoT services providers in the Middle East have announced at least 16 low-power, wide-area (LPWA) networks since […]