At the recent ApacheCon North America, Jagadish Venkatraman spoke about how LinkedIn developed Apache Samza 1.0 to handle stream processing at scale. He described LinkedIn’s use cases involving trillions of events and petabytes of data, then highlighted the features added for the 1.0 release, including: stateful processing, high-level APIs, and a flexible deployment model. By […]
Archives for September 2019
5 Reasons Why You Should Store Big Data In The Cloud
Gone are the days when storage of information can only be done with the traditional remote servers which are located in a secluded location. Today, the in-thing is cloud data storage where information and data are stored electronically online. With this approach, you can store unlimited data online (in the cloud) and access it anywhere. […]
An overview of the IoT LPWANs Market
The growing trend of IoT and Machine to Machine (M2M) communication is fuelling the global IoT LPWANs market. Internet of Things Low Power Wide Area Networks (IoT LPWANs) is a technology that connects low-bandwidth and low-power devices with a low bit rate over long ranges. IoT LPWANs have major applications in M2M communication. The major […]
AutoML: BigML Automated Machine Learning
Last year, BigML launched the OptiML resource for Automatic Model Optimization. Without a doubt, it has marked a milestone in our Machine Learning platform. Since then, many users have included OptiML in their Machine Learning toolboxes. However, some users are asking us to go further than model selection, so today we’re presenting BigML’s AutoML, an […]
ApacheCon 2019 Keynote: Google Cloud Enhances Big-Data Processing with Kubernetes
At ApacheCon North America, Christopher Crosbie gave a keynote talk title “Yet Another Resource Negotiator for Big Data? How Google Cloud is Enhancing Data Lake Processing with Kubernetes.” He highlighted Google’s efforts to make Apache big-data software “cloud native” by developing open-source Kubernetes Operators to provide control planes for running Apache software in a Kubernetes […]
Chinese Agri-tech Giant XAG Defended 20-million-hectare Farmlands with Crop Spraying Drones
XAG announces that its Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) crop protection services have covered an accumulated farmland of 20 million hectares, amid a large-scale cotton defoliation operation in Xinjiang, China. Among the first to introduce fully autonomous drones to transform the way crops are grown, XAG has become one of the world’s largest agriculture drone manufacturers […]
Telefónica, DGT and SEAT join forces to use IoT technology to increase cyclists’ safety on the road
Two use cases in which drones with a camera, an intelligent platform, and the connected car are able to communicate end-to-end via the Telefónica network. Drivers of connected vehicles are alerted to two dangerous situations on the road: the presence of a cyclist and a stationary vehicle on the road. Today, in Becerril de la […]
New Microsoft Report Reveals Increasing IoT Market Maturity, Partners Share Keys to Implementation Success
Author: Justin Slade, Director, Intelligent Edge Partner Marketing at Microsoft Together with associated technologies such as cloud and edge computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and mixed reality, the Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming how people live and work. Business decision makers and IT leaders are launching IoT initiatives at an accelerating rate, across industries and […]
Azure Media Services’ new AI-powered innovation
Animated character recognition, multilingual speech transcription and more now available At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The media industry exemplifies this mission. We live in an age where more content is being created and consumed in more ways and on more devices than ever. […]
Expanded Azure Maps coverage, preview of Azure Maps feedback site, and more
This blog post was co-authored by Ricky Brundritt, Principal Technical Program Manager, Azure Maps. Azure Maps services continue to expand our support for Microsoft enterprise customers’ needs in Azure. And, we’ve been busy expanding our capabilities. Today we’re announcing Azure Maps is now available in Argentina, India, Morocco, and Pakistan. We have also launched a […]