Selection follows two-year analysis of best capabilities in the eUICC market Integrated in Q2, traffic and usage rapidly growing across verticals Simfony MVNO customers enabled to launch and grow IoT services globally iBASIS, the leading provider of communications solutions for operators and digital players worldwide, today announced that Simfony, the leading IoT PaaS provider and […]
US firms dominate top 10 VC investors list in IoT tech space in 2018
The US was home to majority of the global top 10 venture capital (VC) investors in the Internet of Things (IoT) tech space in 2018, according to GlobalData. The top 10 VC investors (Baidu, Amazon Alexa Fund, Intel Capital, Robert Bosch, Northern Light Venture Capital, Khosla Ventures, Parkwalk Advisors, Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners and […]
Latency is the new currency of the Cloud: Announcing 31 new Azure edge sites
Providing users fast and reliable access to their cloud services, apps, and content is pivotal to a business’ success. The latency when accessing cloud-based services can be the inhibitor to cloud adoption or migration. In most cases, this is caused by commercial internet connections that aren’t tailored to today’s global cloud needs. Through deployment and […]
AI can help prevent mass shootings
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time hand tracking from Google’s AI labs, however, could be the breakthrough some have been waiting for. The new technique uses a few […]
Harnessing the power of the Location of Things with Azure Maps
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the beginning of accessing planetary-scale insights. With the mass adoption of IoT and the very near future explosion of sensors, connectivity, and computing, humanity is on the cusp of a fully connected, intelligent world. We will be part of the generation that realizes the data-rich, algorithmically deterministic lifestyle the […]
Azure Load Balancer becomes more efficient
Azure introduced an advanced, more efficient Load Balancer platform in late 2017. This platform adds a whole new set of abilities for customer workloads using the new Standard Load Balancer. One of the key additions the new Load Balancer platform brings, is a simplified, more predictable and efficient outbound connectivity management. While already integrated with […]
Semtech’s LoRa® Devices Preserve Centuries of Art and Cultural History
By enabling efficient art health monitoring, Conserv’s LoRa-based solution saves museums and exhibitions thousands of dollars. Semtech Corporation announced that Conserv, a leading Internet of Things (IoT) solution provider for art and museum applications, has developed a smart art conservation solution based on Semtech’s LoRa® devices and the LoRaWAN® protocol. Conserv’s LoRa-enabled sensors utilize low-power […]
How Businesses Should Prepare their IoT for the New Security Risks of 5G
As 5G becomes an ever-present reality, it will change the way we think about and interact with technology. We have never known internet speed like 5G, and the improvement communications will enable some exciting and revolutionary technologies. This, for all intents and purposes, will be an awakening in the possibilities of our world. It will […]
Preview of custom content in Azure Policy guest configuration
Today we are announcing a preview of a new feature of Azure Policy. The guest configuration capability, which audits settings inside Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs), is now ready for customers to author and publish custom content. The guest configuration platform has been generally available for built-in content provided by Microsoft. Customers are using […]
Plan migration of your Hyper-V servers using Azure Migrate Server Assessment
Azure Migrate is focused on streamlining your migration journey to Azure. We recently announced the evolution of Azure Migrate, which provides a streamlined, comprehensive portfolio of Microsoft and partner tools to meet migration needs, all in one place. An important capability included in this release is upgrades to Server Assessment for at-scale assessments of VMware […]