Tag: Microsoft

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Alice Rison. We’re excited and proud to announce that Microsoft Azure is the first hyper-scale cloud computing platform to be able to service UK law enforcement IT customers. This announcement comes in the wake of the United Kingdom’s National Police Information Risk Management Team (NPIRMT) completing a comprehensive physical security review of a Microsoft UK Data Centre. This review is a necessary step to provide assurance to UK law enforcement agencies that their information management systems would be hosted in Police Approved Secure Facilities (PASF).   As stated by the College of Policing’s Authorized Professional Practice ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Andres Juarez. As part of Microsoft’s mission to enable more customers and organizations worldwide to achieve more, Azure IoT Hub is expanding within 4 countries across 3 continents, with availability now in Azure UK South, UK West, Canada Central, Canada East, India Central, India South, East US2 and Central US. These new regions give you more options for implementing IoT solutions in geographic locations that work best for your mission, passions, creative aspirations, and business!   Azure IoT Hub is a fully-managed service that enables reliable and secure bidirectional communications between millions of IoT devices ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Renata Melnyk. Explore the AWS Competency Program: Helping Customers Identify Top AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners on AWS across Industries, Verticals, and Solutions Customers use AWS to meet a wide variety of their IT needs, and many customers leverage the AWS Partner Network (APN) to provide additional value. Are you looking to engage with an AWS Consulting Partner who can help you effectively migrate your applications to AWS? Are you a media firm hoping to identify an AWS Technology Partner solution that can help you render video footage in the cloud? Chances are, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mango Solutions. Beth Ashlee, Data Scientist After a successful first-ever EARL San Francisco in June, it was time to head back to the birth place EARL – London. With more abstracts submitted than ever before, the conference was made up of 54 fantastic talks and 5 key notes from an impressive selection of industries. With so many talks to pick from we thought we would summarise a few of my favourites! Day 1 highlights: After brilliant keynotes from Tom Smith (ONS) and Rstudio’s Jenny Bryan in session 1, Derek Norton and Neera Talbert from Microsoft took us ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Dinesh Murthy. One of the fastest areas of growth in cloud computing is around data storage. With a variety of workloads such as IoT telemetry, logging, media, genomics and archival driving cloud data growth, the need for scalable capacity, bandwidth, and transactions for storing and analyzing data for business insights, is more important than ever. Up to 10x increase to Blob storage account scalability We are excited to announce improvements in the capacity and scalability of standard Azure storage accounts, which greatly improves your experience building cloud-scale applications using Azure Storage. Effective immediately, Azure Blob ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Justin Incarnato. In today’s world, security is paramount. Microsoft is committed to ensuring your Azure Stack environment stays both secure and functional – as it delivers consistency to build and deploy applications using the same approach, APIs, DevOps tools, and portal, as you use for Azure. Azure Stack operators must be able to safely and reliably update their Azure Stack infrastructure, while at the same time, provide highly-available, mission-critical services to their customers. Updates can range in scope from software to firmware, across core components of the system. The update process must be easy and ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Jean-Cyril Schutterle. Even just five years back, Artificial Intelligence (AI) was still the stuff of science fiction, confined to research labs and tech giants’ showcases. It was pretty similar to the auto show concept car – there to be admired but not to be touched. Today, though, AI is everywhere. Whether it’s virtual assistants scheduling our meetings, facial recognition software or increasingly autonomous cars, AI is making itself felt in all our private and professional lives. One thing is certain – AI is here to stay. But quite what its impact ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Mango Solutions. Mango Solutions are delighted to announce the full EARL Boston agenda for this coming November! As always, we received more abstracts than we could accept and all were of excellent quality. Because of this, the decision-making process was not easy; however, we believe we’ve put together a great agenda that showcases how a range of industries are solving business problems with R. We’re confident that R users of all levels and from all industries will find the EARL Boston Conference useful. On to the speakers! Joining David, Mara and Tareef, are speakers from companies such ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Lauren Small. By David Velez, AWS Digital Marketing Manager The AWS Partner Webinar Series is a selection of live and recorded online presentations that cover a broad range of topics at varying technical levels and scale. Each webinar is hosted by an AWS Solutions Architect and an AWS Competency Partner who has successfully helped customers evaluate and implement the tools, techniques, and technologies of AWS. These webinars feature technical sessions with AWS solutions architects and engineers, live demonstrations, customer examples, and expert Q&A sessions. See the upcoming webinars below: Salesforce Webinars Salesforce IoT: Monetize ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Satish Meena. The four essentials to rock the 2017 holiday seasonWin the hearts and wallets of always-connected, deal-savvy consumers. Watch the webinar replay    On October 6, 2014, Flipkart launched Big Billion Day, an event that occurs within India’s festive season — a holiday period that accounts for 40% of the total sales of key brands in India. Now in its fourth year, Big Billion Day has expanded from a one-day event to five days. In 2014, Snapdeal launched similar sales to compete with Big Billion Day; the following year, Amazon launched its Great Indian Festive ... Read More