McRock Capital has held an initial closing on its second venture capital fund, McRock Fund II LP, dedicated to investing in the global trend around the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT). The new fund has reached over 80% of its targeted $100 million. Investors include Cisco Investments, Shell and other significant corporate and institutional investors […]
Cubic Telecom expands its in-car Wi-Fi coverage footprint for connected car services
Cubic Telecom has doubled the number of markets in Europe where drivers can purchase its connectivity solution. Cubic Telecom today announced that it has doubled the number of countries in Europe where it provides in-car Wi-Fi services. Several brands within the Volkswagen Group are already offering Cubic Telecom’s solution in these new markets with other […]
Google Introduces Cloud Storage Connector for Hadoop Big Data Workloads
In a recent blog post, Google announced a new Cloud Storage connector for Hadoop. This new capability allows organizations to substitute their traditional HDFS with Google Cloud Storage. Columnar file formats such as Parquet and ORC may realize increased throughput and customers will benefit from Cloud Storage directory isolation, lower latency, increased parallelization and intelligent […]
iBASIS and Nordic blow away any question marks on eSIM NB-IoT and LTE-M technology
Nordic Semiconductor today announces that in conjunction with one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions for operators and digital players worldwide, iBASIS, it has completely invalidated any question marks over cellular IoT and eSIM technology used in NB-IoT and LTE-M Low Power Wide-Area (LPWA) use cases further to successful field-testing across 30 countries […]
Microsoft Azure available from new cloud regions in Germany
Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Telekom, SAP, and others trust Microsoft for their digital transformations Today, we’re announcing the availability of Azure in our new cloud regions in Germany. These new regions and our ongoing global expansion are in response to customer demand as more industry leaders choose Microsoft’s cloud services to further their digital transformations. As […]
Satellite connectivity expands reach of Azure ExpressRoute across the globe
Staying connected to access and ingest data in today's highly distributed application environments is paramount for any enterprise. Many businesses need to operate in and across highly unpredictable and challenging conditions. For example, energy, farming, mining, and shipping often need to operate in remote, rural, or other isolated locations with poor network connectivity. With the […]
Microsoft’s connected vehicle platform presence at IAA, the Frankfurt Auto Show
This post was co-authored by the extended Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform (MCVP) team. A connected vehicle solution must enable a fleet of potentially millions of vehicles, distributed around the world, to deliver intuitive experiences including infotainment, entertainment, productivity, driver safety, driver assistance. In addition to these services in the vehicle, a connected vehicle solution is […]
Article: Data Analytics in the World of Agility
Is it all about customer-centric business, or is there any data left? Can we integrate data analytics and customer empathy? This article explores how we can move towards a more customer-centric business and what information we require in order to understand the most valuable thing we have: our customer. By Almudena Rodriguez Pardo
Bring Machine Learning to PostgreSQL with BigML
As of late, we’ve been using PostgreSQL in BigML quite a lot, and so do some of our customers. We love the features that they are bringing in the next release (which is in Beta as I write) and particularly the one that allows creating what they call generated columns. In this post, I’ll be […]
4 Common Areas for Supply Chain Improvement
Supply chains are made up of so many interconnected moving parts that, even if the chain as a whole is functioning, there are always improvements available to make business outcomes a little better. Or a lot better. Here are four common areas for supply chain improvement organizations can achieve through data analytics. Finding Better Ways […]