Sources revealed that the famous online payment giant, Paypal has made its first-ever investment in the blockchain-based startup, Cambridge Blockchain– however, the amount of investment is still out of sight. <![CDATA[ ]]> Per the announcement, PayPal, established by Elon Musk with other founders Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Ken Howery, Luke Nosek, Yu Pan – is […]
Archives for 2019
Event-driven Java with Spring Cloud Stream Binder for Azure Event Hubs
Spring Cloud Stream Binder for Azure Event Hubs is now generally available. It is simple to build highly scalable event-driven Java apps using Spring Cloud Stream with Event Hubs, a fully managed, real-time data ingestion service on Azure that is resilient and reliable service for any situation. This includes emergencies, thanks to its geo-disaster recovery […]
Is Blockchain The Answer To Blockchain Security Problems?
Given blockchain’s impressive new prominence in the marketplace, it’s of little surprise that so many people are finally discussing the myriad of ways in which it can positively disrupt the market. Most conversations surrounding blockchain technology have often centered around its security applications, particularly since the decentralized nature of it threatens to upend traditional understandings […]
Unlock dedicated resources and enterprise features by migrating to Service Bus Premium
Azure Service Bus has been the Messaging as a Service (MaaS) option of choice for our enterprise customers. We’ve seen tremendous growth to our customer base and usage of the existing namespaces, which inspires us to bring more features to the service. We recently expanded Azure Service Bus to support all Azure regions with Availability […]
Windows Server 2019 support now available for Windows Containers on Azure App Service
The Azure App Service engineering team is always striving to improve the efficiency and overall performance of applications on our platform. Today, we are happy to announce Windows Server 2019 Container support in public preview. To our customers, this expanded support translates into clear efficiencies: Reduced container size enables you to be more cost effective […]
Tasmanian Distillery Knocks Out Counterfeiters with HID Global’s IoT Platform for Brand Protection
HID Global®, a worldwide leader in trusted identity solutions, today announced that Tasmania’s Old Kempton Distillery (OKD) has deployed its Internet of Things (IoT) enablement platform, HID Trusted Tag® Services, to combat counterfeiting of its world class whiskeys, gins and other liquor products. HID’s IoT platform for brand protection, combined with the web application developed […]
Extending Azure Security Center capabilities
This blog post was co-authored by Ron Matchoro, Principal Program Manager, Ronit Reger, Senior Program Manager, Miri Landau, Senior Program Manager, and Devendra Tiwari, Principal PM Manager, Azure Security Center. As more organizations are delivering innovation faster by moving their businesses to the cloud, increased security is critically important for every industry. Azure has built-in […]
Announcing the Azure Functions Premium plan for enterprise serverless workloads
We are very excited to announce the Azure Functions Premium plan in preview, our newest Functions hosting model! This plan enables a suite of long requested scaling and connectivity options without compromising on event-based scale. With the Premium plan you can use pre-warmed instances to run your app with no delay after being idle, you […]
A new and essential collaboration platform for blockchain
April 2, 2019 | Written by: Louis de Bruin Categorized: Announcements Share this post: Since the company’s founding over 100 years ago, we at IBM have believed that collaboration is key to the successful nurturing and development of any new technology. Blockchain is no different. Not only do we need collaboration on developing blockchain technology […]
Is Machine Learning Changing The Direction Of The Energy Sector?
Machine learning is having a major impact on countless industries across the globe. The energy sector is a prime example. The energy and utilities sector is essential to the global economy. The production and consumption of energy resources is imperative for powering nations and business sectors, including transportation and manufacturing. According to an analysis by CB […]