This post is co-authored by Tina Coll, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Azure Cognitive Services and Anny Dow, Product Marketing Manager, Azure Cognitive Services. Azure Cognitive Services brings artificial intelligence (AI) within reach of every developer without requiring machine learning expertise. All it takes is an API call to embed the ability to see, hear, speak, […]
Secure and compliant APIs for a hybrid and multi-cloud world
APIs are everywhere. The broad proliferation of applications throughout enterprises often results in large silos of opaque processes and services, making it hard for IT to manage and govern APIs in a systematic way, and for development teams to gain visibility into and make use of APIs that already exist. Entire industries, such as financial […]
Dedicated IoT Satellite Service Hiber Starts Commercial Trials on Global Scale
Highlights: Hiber, launched by start-up veterans from companies like Booking.com, JustEat & Treatwell, opens up $100bn remote connected tech industry On all continents Hiber will start trialling its fully automated end-to-end service across industries including agriculture, oil & gas and logistics Hiber brings connectivity to 90% of the world currently without a network Following the […]
New Azure Security Center and Azure platform security capabilities
At Microsoft Ignite we're sharing the many new capabilities our teams have built to improve security with Azure Security Center and the Azure Platform. We have a long list of new innovations, and this blog provides our general direction and summarizes some of our favorite new features. For more information, you can read all the […]
Accelerating blockchain adoption in the enterprise
The mission for our blockchain investments has remained steadfast since the beginning, with the goal of democratizing complex technologies and creating connections across organizational boundaries to solve shared problems in a trusted manner. With this in mind, our roadmap has been focused on building an open and scalable platform to advance the adoption of blockchain […]
Serverless for the enterprise with Microsoft Azure
Cloud computing has opened new paradigms for enterprises to reach higher levels of productivity and scale. At the tip of that spear is serverless computing, enabling developers, teams, and organizations to focus on business logic and leave hosting and scaling of resources to the cloud platform. At Microsoft Ignite, we’re announcing serverless functions with no […]
Success in the cloud: Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure
With thousands of customers deploying more and more applications on cloud platforms, cloud technologies have become increasingly more familiar to businesses. However, the path for successful cloud adoption can be bumpy for enterprises as it requires more than the typical technology deployment steps. Successful cloud adoption requires deeper and broader changes across an organization, including […]
Globalstar Partners with Ceres Tag on New Animal Ear Tag Design
Small Satellite Tracker Foreseen as Game-Changer in Global Agriculture Industry. Globalstar, Inc., today announced its partnership with Ceres Tag, a leader in livestock information systems using a proprietary smart ear tag, to conduct its final stages of commercial large-scale trials for the provenance and management of livestock. These trials will be a significant scale extension […]
Toshiba to form IoT alliance with SoftBank, KDDI and others
Platform aims to spur innovation at Japanese companies struggling to keep up. Japanese electronics conglomerate Toshiba will launch an “internet of things” platform next spring that will include companies like SoftBank Group, wireless carrier KDDI and utility Tokyo Gas. Toshiba will create an association of roughly 100 Japanese companies called ifLink Open Community, the company […]
Digital Matter Secures Order for 11,000 GPS Tracking Devices to Malaysian Sigfox IoT Provider Xperanti
Digital Matter has partnered with Xperanti IoT, supplying over 11,000 Oyster Sigfox battery powered GPS tracking devices for affordable asset tracking in Malaysia on the LPWAN Sigfox Network. Digital Matter‘s long-life battery powered tracking solutions, which are utilized in over 100 countries around the world, help businesses monitor and optimize non-powered assets and improve utilization. […]