The basic premise of IoT is easily understood: devices are deployed and connected for a huge range of use cases, like gathering business-critical data, managing access to rooms and tracking goods.(read more)
Archives for November 2019
Making automation work for you: Managing 1 trillion connections
The basic premise of IoT is easily understood: devices are deployed and connected for a huge range of use cases, like gathering business-critical data, managing access to rooms and tracking goods.(read more)
Why It’s Nice to Know What Can Go Wrong with AI
The mistakes and lessons learned early in the lifecycle of AI will serve all of us well in the future.
China to Boost Blockchain Innovation by Investing $2 Bn by 2023 – IDC Report
A new report from the U.S based, data analysis firm, International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts a 67% CAGR in China’s blockchain technology industry from 2018 to 2023. 60% CAGR in the Global Blockchain Industry China’s affinity to blockchain is clear to see as the government, private sector and regulatory authorities all working towards mass adoption […]
Announcing the general availability of the new Azure HPC Cache service
If data-access challenges have been keeping you from running high-performance computing (HPC) jobs in Azure, we’ve got great news to report! The now-available Microsoft Azure HPC Cache service lets you run your most demanding workloads in Azure without the time and cost of rewriting applications and while storing data where you want to—in Azure or […]
Announcing the general availability of the new Azure HPC Cache service
If data-access challenges have been keeping you from running high-performance computing (HPC) jobs in Azure, we’ve got great news to report! The now-available Microsoft Azure HPC Cache service lets you run your most demanding workloads in Azure without the time and cost of rewriting applications and while storing data where you want to—in Azure or […]
Democratizing agriculture intelligence: introducing Azure FarmBeats
For an industry that started 12,000 years ago, there is a lot of unpredictability and imprecision in agriculture. To be predictable and precise, we need to align our actions with insights gathered from data. Last week at Microsoft Ignite, we launched the preview of Azure FarmBeats, a purpose-built, industry-specific solution accelerator built on top of […]
China’s State Newspaper Recognizes ‘Bitcoin’ in a Bittersweet Symphony
The most prominent and influential state-run news agency in China, Xinhua (‘New China’), just published an article on Bitcoin and blockchain. The title of the article, Bitcoin: The First Successful Application of Blockchain, looks positive. However, when one goes through the material, it leaves a bitter after taste. Xinhua article on Bitcoin: The First Successful […]
The Hunt for the ‘Goldilocks Zone’ in Tech and Data Policy
During a preview of CES 2020, Gary Shapiro spoke about finding a balance between legislation and leeway for technology implementation.
BigML Customer Success Highlights – Part 1
Our post on the 100,000 registered customers milestone this summer included an infographic of sample use cases being explored by BigML users, which naturally span many different sectors and industries. Today, we’d like to start a series of posts that further highlight a subset of those business problems to give our readers some clues on […]