Tom Fenton, presenting again at this year’s U.S. conference, shares his thoughts on the event themed “Explore the center of the multi-cloud universe.”
Archives for June 2023
Discord Migrates Trillions of Messages from Cassandra to ScyllaDB
Discord has migrated trillions of message records from Apache Cassandra to ScyllaDB, reducing the size of the largest cluster from 177 Cassandra nodes to 72 ScyllaDB nodes and reducing tail latencies for reads and writes. The move has unlocked new product use cases because of the improved database stability and performance. By Rafal Gancarz
The economic benefits of innovating with Azure AI
At Microsoft Build this year our CEO Satya Nadella grounded the excitement surrounding AI back to one simple goal: to better serve unmet user needs. He asked “Why do we build software?” and, in doing so, he reminded us it’s not the technological capabilities of AI tools that make them so valuable, but instead where […]
New OpenAI Functions Flop Amid ‘More Stupid’ Dev Complaints
OpenAI’s new function calling capabilities are flopping for some developers, many of whom are also complaining about the ChatGPT creator making its large language models (LLMs) “more stupid” with recent updates.
Removing barriers to autonomous vehicle adoption with Microsoft Azure
Autonomous vehicles, also known as self-driving cars, have the potential to truly revolutionize the transportation industry, with its impact anticipated across many industries. Several stubborn obstacles, however, stand in the way of mass adoption. In the over 150 years since the automotive industry was founded, it has never experienced such rapid innovation and transformational change […]
Velos IoT Launches Connect LPWA Solution
Velos IoT is delighted to announce the launch of its latest connectivity solution – Connect LPWA, which offers one of the largest Low Power Wide Area coverage solutions in the market—aimed at resellers, enterprises, and OEMs who are currently on 2G and 3G networks and want energy-efficient devices deployed worldwide with reduced cost and maximised […]
Cellular IoT module revenues increased 12 percent to reach US$ 5.9 billion in 2022
According to a new research report from the IoT analyst firm Berg Insight, annual shipments of cellular IoT modules amounted to 427 million units in 2022, flat from the previous year. Annual sales grew by 12 percent and amounted to US$ 5.9 billion in the year. The five largest cellular module vendors – Quectel, Fibocom, […]
Early June Microsoft outages were result of large-scale DDoS hit
Use IoT hardening to secure vulnerable connected devices
Global cellular IoT module market declined 6% in Q1 2023
IoT Analytics published the Q1/2023 update of their “Global Cellular IoT Module and Chipset Market Tracker & Forecast” – an interactive dashboard and structured market tracker that includes quarterly data on worldwide cellular IoT modules and chipsets from 2018 to Q1 2023, and forecast data from Q2 2023 to 2027. KEY QUOTES: Satyajit Sinha, Principal […]