As a partner, you play a critical role in successful planning and managing long-term cloud implementations for your customers. While the cloud grants the flexibility to scale the cloud infrastructure to the changing needs, it does become challenging to control the spend when cloud costs can fluctuate dramatically with demand. This is where Azure Cost […]
Archives for November 2019
Understand top public cloud repatriation use cases
Tech for good: Building eco-friendly into your brand
The latest extinction rebellion highlighted an increasingly urgent appetite from the public to tackle climate change and ensure greater sustainability. Brands are no exception to the story. Environmentally-aware consumers don’t just want to make the world a better place; a recent survey from Futerra found the majority (96%) feel their behaviour and purchasing choices can […]
PyTorch on Azure with streamlined ML lifecycle
It's exciting to see the Pytorch Community continue to grow and regularly release updated versions of PyTorch! Recent releases improve performance, ONNX export, TorchScript, C++ frontend, JIT, and distributed training. Several new experimental features, such as quantization, have also been introduced. At the PyTorch Developer Conference earlier this fall, we presented how our open source contributions to PyTorch […]
Unlocking Market Data, Amazon Introduces AWS Data Exchange
In a recent blog post, Amazon has introduced a new market data publisher/subscriber service called AWS Data Exchange. This service is an add-on to the existing AWS Marketplace and contains more than 1000 licensable data products from more than 80 data providers. These data feeds include both free and paid offerings that span industries such […]
Bing delivers its largest improvement in search experience using Azure GPUs
Over the last couple of years, deep learning has become widely adopted across the Bing search stack and powers a vast number of our intelligent features. We use natural language models to improve our core search algorithm’s understanding of a user’s search intent and the related webpages so that Bing can deliver the most relevant […]
Accelerate IoMT on FHIR with new Microsoft OSS Connector
Microsoft is expanding the ecosystem of FHIR® for developers with a new tool to securely ingest, normalize, and persist Protected Health Information (PHI) from IoMT devices in the cloud. Continuing our commitment to remove the barriers of interoperability in healthcare, we are excited to expand our portfolio of Open Source Software (OSS) to support the […]
Helping Smart Cities become more Inclusive
According to the UN, we will see the world's urban populations grow from today's 55 percent to 68 percent by 2050. With almost a billion people on the path to be urban dwellers, most cities are still unfriendly to people with disabilities. As more people flock to cities, making our cities smarter and more inclusive […]
Senet and MeterSYS® Partner to Deliver Smart City Solutions and Advanced Water Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to Public Agencies
Collaboration Supports Increased Demand for LoRaWAN Technology to Modernize Utility and Local Government Infrastructure. Senet, Inc. today announced a partnership with MeterSYS®, a trusted innovator of advanced smart city and metering technology solutions for public utilities. Collaboration between the two companies focuses on deploying LoRaWAN® enabled networks for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and IoT devices […]
Semtech’s LoRa® Devices Enable AMI Metering Applications for Smarter Utility Management
NSOFT’s LoRa-based smart metering platform improves grid efficiency up to 25 percent and provide utility customers a quick return on investment (ROI). Semtech Corporation announced that NSOFT, a leading Indian provider of automation and metering solutions for distribution utilities, has developed a new smart metering platform based on Semtech’s LoRa® devices and the LoRaWAN® protocol. […]