Tag: Microsoft

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Chime users can now screen share from Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome without installing any extensions or downloading a plug-in on Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS desktop devices. Chime now leverages the Web APIs available in Mozilla Firefox version 66 and higher or Google Chrome version 72 and higher to deliver native screen share capabilities. In three clicks, any attendee using these browsers can join a Chime meeting and start sharing an application window or the entire screen with other participants. There is no need for pre-meeting testing or setup as all attendees, even ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: David Burt. Can you trust your cloud provider? That’s a question being asked a lot of these days, and with the newest version of our popular white paper Trusted Cloud: Microsoft Azure security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, and protected IP we’ve worked to provide you answers. When we first published Trusted Cloud in 2015, the paper was 13 pages long and covered security, privacy, and compliance. Since then we’ve updated Trusted Cloud several times, and our newest edition stretches to 42 pages and includes new sections on resiliency and intellectual property. We understand 42 pages is ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Anna Mulamba; Technology leaders are embracing multi-cloud to mitigate the business and technical challenges that arise from applications running in a single environment: maxed out resources, limited geographic reach, limited resilience, vendor lock-in, and inflexible resources. Kubernetes has emerged as the best way to support applications that are cloud agnostic and run across multiple clouds. So how do you architect Kubernetes to support a multi-cloud application? You start by designing your Kubernetes architecture with multi-cloud in mind. Join DivvyCloud CEO Brian Johnson to get straight talk on best practices for designing Kubernetes to enable multi-cloud. Attend this ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Anna Mulamba; Modern businesses often have several mission-critical applications, services and resources running in the cloud. The bigger the organization, the more likely these assets are spread across public and private clouds and a variety of cloud platforms, including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure. It’s easy to understand why: The cloud has enabled greater flexibility, accessibility, and resilience for IT professionals and business units alike. However, the convenience of the cloud has also created new headaches. Managing all those disparate resources and services — spread across multiple cloud providers and accounts/subscriptions ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Bruce Daley. Should we be worried about the future of artificial intelligence? Some of the biggest names in science and technology have recently made headlines by suggesting that yes, we should. Microsoft founder Bill Gates has joined this school of thought, saying he is “in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence,” and predicting that in mere decades, AI could become “strong enough to be a concern.” Summoning the Demon Gates’ comments echo what several other forward thinkers have said about this topic. Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, Telsa Motors, SolarCity, and PayPal has ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Aditya Kaul. Microsoft caused a stir last week during the launch of Windows 10. The company unexpectedly announced a holographic smart glass called HoloLens, which will be launched in conjunction with Windows 10, later in 2015. Interestingly, Microsoft calls their new product the world’s first holographic computing platform, rather than an augmented reality (AR) platform. It’s clever marketing from Microsoft, which is trying hard to score points against Google and Apple on the innovation tally. In the same week HoloLens was announced, Google officially announced that they are shutting down the Glass Explorer program, but ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. Manufacturing is a 24/7 industry where high availability is critical. MESTEC provides intelligent SaaS solutions to optimize the lifecycle from planning to execution for some of the world’s most prestigious manufacturers of submarines, missiles, micro-semiconductors, orthopedic hips, and pastry pies. Moving MESTEC’s legacy on-premises infrastructure to the Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud that has zero downtime allows the company to more strategically focus resources on innovating tools to improve manufacturing quality, cost, and delivery performance. Using Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing in combination with Microsoft Azure Interconnect has helped MESTEC cut its labor and infrastructure costs in ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Amy Boyd. We are excited to share the winners of the first Microsoft Azure AI Hackathon, hosted on Devpost. Developers of all backgrounds and skill levels were welcome to join and submit any form of AI project, whether using Azure AI to enhance existing apps with pre-trained machine learning (ML) models or by building ML models from scratch. Over 900 participants joined in, and 69 projects were submitted. A big thank you to all who participated and many congratulations to the winners. First place—Trashé    Submitted by Nathan Glover and Stephen Mott, Trashé is a ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are happy to announce the public preview of a new set of PowerShell cmdlets which will enable automation of  gateway management tasks. These PowerShell scripts help manage On-premises data gateways Power BI Data sources Note: These cmdlets require PowerShell core 6.2.2 or higher The cmdlets are available on PowerShell Gallery and can be installed in an elevated PowerShell session: Install-Module -Name DataGateway Examples and descriptions are included in the cmdlets and you can access them using: get-help We also plan to make an online version of the documentation ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: InsideMySQL.com; Dear MySQL users, MySQL Connector/NET 8.0.18 is the first version to support .Net Core 3.0 and the sixth general availability release of MySQL Connector/NET to add support for the X DevAPI, which enables application developers to write code that combines the strengths of the relational and document models using a modern, NoSQL-like syntax that does not assume previous experience writing traditional SQL. To learn more about how to write applications using the X DevAPI, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/index.html. For more information about how the X DevAPI is implemented in Connector/NET, see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/connector-net. NuGet packages provide functionality at ... Read More