Tag: Mobile

Feed: CIO. Author: . It’s not possible to go very far in IT without encountering the term “open source”. For non-IT people, open source is simply a software for which the source code has been made freely available for modification and enhancement by anyone, waiving any rights to profit from its use by others.Open source software is ubiquitous. Source code controls the computer programs and applications that our technology runs on, making it part of almost everything we do—from the car we drive to the mobile phones we use.The Android operating system that powers most of the world’s smartphones is ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Wavelength and Verizon’s 5G Edge bring the power of the world’s leading cloud closer to mobile and connected devices at the edge of the Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband network. Wavelength embeds AWS compute and storage services at the edge of communications service providers’ 5G networks while providing seamless access to cloud services running in an AWS Region. By doing so, AWS Wavelength minimizes the latency and network hops required to connect from a 5G device to an application hosted on AWS.  Among the many ultra-low latency use cases that Wavelength enables are 5G applications that deliver ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Bala Thekkedath. Creating an EC2 instance in the AWS Wavelength ZoneThis blog post is contributed by Saravanan Shanmugam, Lead Solution Architect, AWS Wavelength AWS announced Wavelength at re:Invent 2019 in partnership with Verizon in US, SK Telecom in South Korea, KDDI in Japan, and Vodafone in UK and Europe. Following the re:Invent 2019 announcement, on August 6, 2020, AWS announced GA of one Wavelength Zone with Verizon in Boston connected to US East (N.Virginia) Region and one in San Francisco connected to the US West (Oregon) Region. In this blog, I walk you through the ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Continuent; Cloud-Based Active/Active Tungsten MySQL Clusters @ Bluefin Payments Please join us on Wednesday September 30th at 10am PT for a discussion about geo-distributed active/active MySQL replication for Financial Services SaaS Providers based on a case study of Continuent customer Bluefin Payments, and on how to guarantee credit card transaction availability with geo-distributed Tungsten MySQL clusters. Financial Services typically require two or more active data centers to provide their customers with continuous availability along with quick response times. Bluefin Payments uses co-located data centers with active/active replication between each MySQL cluster, which provides a complete, local ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: James Phillips. This morning, Alysa Taylor and I are welcoming the global community of technology professionals to Microsoft Ignite in two key segments streaming live and rebroadcast throughout the event.This community will play a leading role in realizing the vision and priorities we're discussing at Microsoft Ignitesolutions to help build resiliency into every layer of business and that help you weather today's challenges so you can proactively get ahead of tomorrow's opportunitiesto reimagine tomorrow. Today, we are announcing new capabilities across Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 to help deliver this vision, including:Low code ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Tuesday, September 22, 2020 is National Voter Registration Day, a nonpartisan civic holiday in the United States celebrating democracy with a mission to create broad awareness of registration opportunities for voters. On National Voter Registration Day and throughout the election cycle, nonprofit civic organizations use the cloud to meet their mission in a secure, scalable, and cost-effective way. With the support of election administrators, civic organizations encourage voters to verify their registration, register to vote, learn about early voting, find their polling place, request ballots, sign-up for election reminders, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Starting this month, we have merged the Power BI Desktop, Service and Mobile blogs, so there is one overview of everything that is new in this month. Many thanks to Sujata and Nikhil for owning the Desktop and Service/Mobile blogs! We are planning several other changes to the blog, so stay tuned. After 10 years, support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020. In line with this, we will be stopping support for Power BI Desktop on Windows 7 on Jan 31st 2021. After that, Power BI Desktop ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . In Power BI, our mission is to help our customers drive a data culture and make better decisions based on data. The Power BI Mobile & Devices team takes this mission beyond the standard data consumption experiences, and with the Power BI app for mixed reality, we enable workers to use data and make data driven decisions in an immersive hands-free environment. Today we’re releasing the next gen of the Power BI app for mixed reality. This app runs on HoloLens 2 and takes advantage of the amazing capabilities ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Scott Van Vliet. The global situation today has truly transformed how we communicate with each other. While we woke up one day and the world was different, business hasn’t stopped. Customers are still needing to connect with businesses. Whether it’s providing real-time virtual assistance or enabling curb side pickup we’ve had to rethink how we engage without physical interactions. In this remote-first world, businesses are looking to quickly adapt to customers’ needs and connect with them through engaging communication experiences. Building new communication solutions or integrating them into existing applications can be complex and time-consuming ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Galen Hunt. In July 2019, Microsoft and AT&T entered a strategic alliance to lead innovation and deliver powerful new solutions in some of the most transformative technologies, including the Internet of Things (IoT). Today, we are sharing that as part of that partnership, AT&T is introducing a new IoT solution consisting of a cellular guardian device powered by their network, security, and support services, and built with Azure Sphere. As a global leader in telecommunications and network security, AT&T is deeply invested in providing resilient solutions that free their customers to innovate with confidence. When ... Read More