One of the world’s most connected and digitalized regions is about to become even smarter as Telia Company is launching a new service, City Vitality Insights. This will help cities across the Nordic and Baltics to improve the urban experience for both locals and visitors while providing an accurate way to measure the impact of […]
Over 100 operators have deployed/launched either NB-IoT or LTE-M networks
The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) has released an update on the number of operators and countries supporting Narrow Band IoT (NB-IoT) and/or LTE-M coverage. Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) is a Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) radio technology standard developed by 3GPP to enable a wide range of cellular devices and services. NB-IoT focuses specifically […]
Get an official service issue root cause analysis with Azure Service Health
After you experience a Microsoft Azure service issue, you likely need to explain what happened to your customers, management, and other stakeholders. That’s why Azure Service Health provides official incident reports and root cause analyses (RCAs) from Microsoft. Azure Service Health helps you stay informed and take action when Azure service issues like incidents and […]
Hannover Messe 2019: Azure IoT Platform updates power new, highly-secured Industrial IoT Scenarios
We’re proud to be showcasing at Hannover Messe once again next week. Manufacturing continues to be one of the leading industries adopting IoT for a growing set of scenarios to improve safety, efficiency, and reliability for people and devices. Every year, I get to meet with partners and customers and learn about how their needs […]
Your Guide To Understanding Various Types of Data Masking
“Google Search Reveals Community College Student’s Social Security Number.” While this may seem like a headline you would find on sites like The Onion, this is something that actually happened. This situation occurred when staff members at a community college started to test a new type of online application that utilized files full of sensitive […]
Linear Regression: A Technical Overview
BigML has added multiple linear regression to its suite of supervised learning methods. In this sixth and final blog post of our series, we will give a rundown of the technical details for this method. Model Definition Given a numeric objective field , we model its response as a linear combination of our inputs , […]
Berg Insight says 17.3 million Europeans will use connected care solutions in 2024
According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, around 7.8 million people in Europe were using connected care solutions at the end of 2018. The figure refers to users of traditional telecare, next-generation telecare and telehealth solutions in the EU28+2 countries. Until 2024, Berg Insight forecasts that the number of […]
Blockchain jobs at IBM, and how to get one
Share this post: As a blockchain recruiting consultant at IBM, I’m often quizzed on the subject. What’s Blockchain? What is it good for? What is the potential of blockchain? These talks invariably lead to discussions around the demand, technology, skills, experience necessary, and ultimately, “how do I get a job in blockchain?” Let’s cover the […]
Retrofitting cybersecurity
In 1982, long before a cybersecurity threat to control system networks was widely recognised, a Trojan horse attack on control system software reportedly caused a huge explosion in a Siberian gas pipeline. Even now, many systems that have been retrofitted for compatibility with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are not well protected. Here, Robin […]
Azure Blob Storage lifecycle management generally available
Data sets have unique lifecycles. Some data is accessed often early in the lifecycle, but the need for access drops drastically as the data ages. Some data remains idle in the cloud and is rarely accessed once stored. Some data expires days or months after creation while other data sets are actively read and modified […]