Tag: Azure

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Chris Hemedinger. If your work environment is like ours here at SAS, you're seeing more of your data and applications move to the cloud. It's not yet a complete replacement for having local files on your desktop machine, but with cloud storage and apps -- like Microsoft OneDrive -- I can now access my work documents from any browser and any device, including my smartphone. I can update now my spreadsheets while waiting in the dentist office. Oh joy. For those of us who use SAS to read and create Microsoft Excel documents, cloud-based files can ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Kirsten M. Walker. Commercial real estate developers, building owners, facilities management companies, and tenants have a huge opportunity to address, and solve for, the unique business challenges faced by their industry, by applying the Internet of Things (IoT) to buildings. For example, by leveraging data from IoT sensors and building management systems, companies can gain insights that enable them to save energy, reduce operational expenses, increase occupant comfort, and optimize space. However, the COVID-19 crisis has presented a new set of challenges for developers, owners, and management companies. New forecasts show the smart building market ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Mo Osborne. Today, we published the 2020 release wave 2 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, a compilation of new capabilities that will be released between October 2020 and March 2021. This second release wave of the year offers hundreds of new features and enhancements, demonstrating our continued investment to power digital transformation for our customers and partners.Highlights from Dynamics 365Dynamics 365 Sales includes updates for more simplified experiences; including collaboration tools, a new mobile experience for quick access to customer information, and new enhancements to forecasting to natively create and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Eric Boyd. As the world adjusts to new ways of working and staying connected, we remain committed to providing Azure AI solutions to help organizations invent with purpose. Building on our vision to empower all developers to use AI to achieve more, today we’re excited to announce expanded capabilities within Azure Cognitive Services, including:. Text Analytics for health preview. Form Recognizer general availability. Custom Commands general availability. New Neural Text to Speech voices. Companies in healthcare, insurance, sustainable farming, and other fields continue to choose Azure AI to build and deploy AI applications to transform ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Héctor Cobo. Virtual SAS Global Forum 2020-06-04 at 9.29.15 AM Por primera vez en su historia, el evento insignia de nuestra compañía, SAS Global Forum 2020, se realizó bajo un formato virtual y con un alcance sin precedentes: más de 14,000 personas de todas las regiones del planeta siguieron su desarrollo y escucharon de primera mano cómo la analítica ha ayudado a combatir los embates del COVID-19, y cómo apoyó a las organizaciones para que siguieran operando y dar continuidad a su negocio, así como acelerar su transformación digital y la migración a la nube. “La ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; We’re proud to announce that Logicworks has renewed its SOC 1 and SOC 2 certification! This is the 2nd year that Logicworks has been certified under the Security and Availability Trust Services Criteria.  The successful completion of our SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type II audits provides our clients with confidence that our security and privacy controls meet industry best practices.  The audits covered our policies and procedures regarding network connectivity, firewall configurations, systems development life cycle, computer operations, logical access, data transmission, backup and disaster recovery, and other critical operational areas of our business.  ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. On the heels of More Azure Blob Storage enhancements come more enhancements for Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 (ADLS Gen2): Archive tier is now GA: The archive tier provides an ultra-low cost tier for long term retention of data while keeping your data available for future analytics needs.  Tier your data seamlessly among hot, cool, and archive so all your data stays in one storage account.  Lifecycle management policies can be set so files are moved automatically to the archive tier when data access becomes rare.  When needed, data in the archive tier ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. Over the past few years, the adoption of cloud object store services like AWS-S3 and Azure Blob has exploded largely because these services are simple to use, low maintenance, cost effective, and scale easily. If you are like most Teradata customers, you’ve also been experimenting with cloud object stores to determine how they can best fit into your enterprise IT ecosystem and support your business. Indeed, you may have even gone so far as to develop an entire corporate data lake strategy based on cloud object stores.Wherever you are on the cloud object store adoption curve, I’m ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Alma Causey. Some claim that technology is evil, while others believe that technology made their lives easy.I am from the latter type because if it weren’t for technology, I would’ve lost business worth $1 M in a single day.Can you believe it? I was away on vacation, and one of the potential clients tried to contact me while I was away from my phone, enjoying the sea, the sunrise at Hawaii Island.Before booking his flight, he emailed me that he is paying a visit to close the deal of worth $1 M.It’s my standard ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Khawaja M. Umair. Technology is an integral part of the digitally transformed business environment. The more capable the employed technology, the better a business can perform and compete in the market. In order to create products, enhance collaboration between teams, and launch, businesses rely on a number of different technologies. This includes collaboration tools, data analytics, and storage technologies.In this article, we’ll explore the top 3 storage infrastructure that can play a key role in improving collaboration, speed-to-market, and enhancing overall productivity; consequently boosting business.#1 – Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI): How it benefits your businessHyper-converged ... Read More