A leader in geosciences, CGG has been imaging the earth’s subsurface for more than 85 years. Their products and solutions help clients locate natural resources. When a customer asked whether the cloud could speed the creation of the high-resolution reservoir models that they needed, CGG turned to Azure high performance computing (HPC). CGG is a […]
Sensoneo leverages Twilio and T-Mobile NB-IoT connectivity for Smart Waste Management
Smart Waste Management company leverages Twilio and T-Mobile Narrowband (NB-IoT) connectivity to optimize waste collection, demonstrating the future of smart cities. Twilio, the leading cloud communications platform, today announced it is powering its first commercial Narrowband IoT deployment in the United States by Sensoneo, a smart waste management solution provider. Leveraging ultrasonic, smart waste monitoring […]
Enable receipt understanding with Form Recognizer’s new capability
One of the newest members of the Azure AI portfolio, Form Recognizer, applies advanced machine learning to accurately extract text, key-value pairs, and tables from documents. With just a few samples, it tailors its understanding to supplied documents, both on-premises and in the cloud. Introducing the new pre-built receipt capability Form Recognizer focuses on making […]
Azure Marketplace new offers–Volume 40
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. For this volume, 212 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: Applications 2Care: 2CARE is a healthcare solution that easily captures the services provided to patients or inhabitants. This application is available only in Germany, Switzerland, and […]
Scale action groups and suppress notifications for Azure alerts
In Azure Monitor, defining what to monitor while configuring alerts can be challenging. Customers need to be capable of defining when actions and notifications should trigger for their alerts, and more importantly, when they shouldn’t. The action rules feature for Azure Monitor, available in preview, allows you to define actions for your alerts at scale, […]
Thanks for 10 years and welcome to a new chapter in SQL innovation
Tomorrow, July 9, 2019, marks the end of extended support for SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2. These releases transformed the database industry, with all the core components of a database platform built-in at a fraction of the cost of other databases. We saw broad adoption across applications, data marts, data warehousing, and business intelligence. […]
Quectel Launches Dual-band GNSS Module LC79D
Quectel Wireless Solutions announced that it has launched a compact dual-band GNSS module LC79D with support of L1 and L5 bands for satellites which will greatly improve positioning accuracy. LC79D has been showcased at MWC Shanghai 2019 during June 26-28. Featuring concurrent multi-constellation GNSS receivers on dual GNSS bands, LC79D can work on L1 and […]
Azure Data Box Heavy is now generally available
Our customers continue to use the Azure Data Box family to move massive amounts of data into Azure. One of the regular requests that we receive is for a larger capacity option that retains the simplicity, security, and speed of the original Data Box. Last year at Ignite, we announced a new addition to the […]
SEC Demands Blockchain Data From Providers To Improve Compliance, And Inform Policy
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is not backing down on its blockchain data policies. As a body which has been very pessimistic about blockchain efficiency and feasibility, SEC is now looking to narrow down its pessimistic approach towards the ecosystem and this time, how much data actually exist on the various blockchain is […]
Smart meter penetration in North America will reach 81 percent by 2024
According to new a research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, the installed base of smart electricity meters in North America will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 8.0 percent between 2018 and 2024 to reach 142.8 million at the end of the period. Over the next five years, smart meter […]