Enterprises are embracing the cloud to run their mission-critical workloads. The number of connected devices on and off-premises, and the data they generate continue to increase requiring new enterprise network edge architectures. We call this the intelligent edge – compute closer to the data sources and users to reduce latency. The intelligent cloud, with its […]
Renesas and Altair Semiconductor Announce Collaboration for Cellular IoT Solutions
Renesas Microcontroller Technology and Altair Cellular IoT Technology Bring Best-in-Class Solutions to the Cellular IoT Market. Renesas Electronics Corporation and Altair Semiconductor, jointly announced a partnership aimed at bringing ultra-small and ultra-low-power cellular IoT solutions to the global IoT market. Cellular IoT device makers will be able to use this combination of best-in-class solutions to […]
Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for every workload
This week at Microsoft Ignite, we announced several important additions to our Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) portfolio. Many companies, including GEICO, H&R Block, and CONA Services, rely on Azure to run a very diverse set of business-critical workloads, often requiring dynamic and scalable infrastructure that delivers unparalleled performance. In order to meet the […]
Coca-Cola & German Software Firm SAP to Solve Supply Chain Problems With Blockchain
Coca-Cola embraces blockchain technology in a $21 billion-a-year industry. Coke One North America (CONA) plans to expand the blockchain network globally. A number of top firms in the world are looking at blockchain technology as an innovative gateway to spur further growth and effectiveness in their processing systems. Coca-Cola became the latest company to find […]
How will device and data management cope as IoT pumps up the volume?
Five years ago, analysts estimated there would be 50 billion devices globally by 2020. With a new decade just around the corner and the number of connected devices sitting at the single digit mark, you might think this missed projection signals failure but really it is just a symptom of overhype. Actually, IoT growth shows […]
Expanding the Azure Stack portfolio to run hybrid applications across the cloud, datacenters, and the edge
Since announcing Azure Stack in 2017, we’ve set the stage for extending the cloud to customers’ datacenters. The hybrid cloud has been one of the design principles for Azure from the start. Today, customers including the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, KPMG Norway, Airbus, and the Malta Information Technology Agency are building hybrid solutions […]
Bring Azure data services to your infrastructure with Azure Arc
With the exponential growth in data, organizations find themselves in increasingly heterogenous data estates, full of data sprawl and silos, spreading across on-premises data centers, the edge, and multiple public clouds. It has been a balancing act for organizations trying to bring about innovation faster while maintaining consistent security and governance. The lack of a […]
Azure Arc: Extending Azure management to any infrastructure
If you are like many of our customers, you run a mix of applications in your on-premises datacenters, in the cloud and at the edge. We have been on a journey over the last few years to bring you hybrid innovations to meet you where you are. We have invested in individual connected management services […]
Azure Machine Learning—ML for all skill levels
Enterprises today are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) at a rapid pace to stay ahead of their competition, deliver innovation, improve customer experiences, and grow revenue. AI and machine learning applications are ushering in a new era of transformation across industries from skill sets to scale, efficiency, operations, and governance. Microsoft Azure Machine Learning provides enterprise-grade […]
Twitter blocking political ads and machine learning
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“…[I]t will be a while before more powerful machine-learning models will be able to predict your mental and physical reactions to a song with any precision… But the researchers are excited about how such models could be applied: to design music for specific individuals, to create highly evocative movie soundtracks, or to help […]