Category: Microsoft

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Sajith Sahadevan. This week, at Smart City Expoin Barcelonawe're excited to showcase new innovations that will transform Smart City programs worldwide. Smart cities are no longer science fiction. They're here and now and growing quickly as the Internet of Things (IoT) expands and spreads throughout municipalities around the globe. Some predict the smart city industry will be a billion dollar market over the next few years and there will be hundreds of smart cities globally. These cities are expected to generate over half of the world's GDP over the next few years.A smart city ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Aparna Gopalakrishnan. As a partner, you play a critical role in successful planning and managing long-term cloud implementations for your customers. While the cloud grants the flexibility to scale the cloud infrastructure to the changing needs, it does become challenging to control the spend when cloud costs can fluctuate dramatically with demand. This is where Azure Cost Management comes in to help you track and control cloud cost, prevent overspending and increase predictability for your cloud costs Announcing general availability of Azure Cost Management for all cloud solution partners (CSPs) who have onboarded their customers ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jaishree Subramania. Vernon Turner is the Founder and Chief Strategist at Causeway Connections, an information and communications technology research firm. For nearly a decade, he’s been serving on global, national, and state steering committees, advising governments, businesses, and communities on IoT-based solution implementation. He recently talked with us about the importance of distinguishing between IoT hype and reality, and identifies three steps businesses need to take to make a successful digital transformation. What is the promise of IoT? The promise of more and more data from more and more connected sensors boils down to unprecedented ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Shivani Patel. It's exciting to see the Pytorch Community continue to grow and regularly release updated versions of PyTorch! Recent releases improve performance, ONNX export, TorchScript, C++ frontend, JIT, and distributed training. Several new experimental features, such as quantization, have also been introduced. At the PyTorch Developer Conference earlier this fall, we presented how our open source contributions to PyTorch make it better for everyone in the community. We also talked about how Microsoft uses PyTorch to develop machine learning models for services like Bing. Whether you are an individual, a small team, or a large enterprise, managing ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jeffrey Zhu. Over the last couple of years, deep learning has become widely adopted across the Bing search stack and powers a vast number of our intelligent features. We use natural language models to improve our core search algorithm’s understanding of a user’s search intent and the related webpages so that Bing can deliver the most relevant search results to our users. We rely on deep learning computer vision techniques to enhance the discoverability of billions of images even if they don’t have accompanying text descriptions or summary metadata. We leverage machine-based reading comprehension models ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Kevin Raines. For more than three decades, the researchers and practitioners that make up the high-performance computing (HPC) community will come together for their annual event. More than ten thousand strong in attendance, the global community will converge on Denver, Colorado to advance the state-of-the-art in HPC. The theme for Supercomputing ‘19 is “HPC is now” - a theme that resonates strongly with the Azure HPC team given the breakthrough capabilities we’ve been working to deliver to customers. Azure is upending preconceptions of what the cloud can do for HPC by delivering supercomputer-grade technologies, innovative ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Heather Jordan Cartwright. Microsoft is expanding the ecosystem of FHIR® for developers with a new tool to securely ingest, normalize, and persist Protected Health Information (PHI) from IoMT devices in the cloud.   Continuing our commitment to remove the barriers of interoperability in healthcare, we are excited to expand our portfolio of Open Source Software (OSS) to support the HL7 FHIR Standard (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource). The release of the new IoMT FHIR Connector for Azure is available today in GitHub. The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is the subset of IoT devices that capture and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: ShiSh Shridhar. According to the UN, we will see the world's urban populations grow from today's 55 percent to 68 percent by 2050. With almost a billion people on the path to be urban dwellers, most cities are still unfriendly to people with disabilities. As more people flock to cities, making our cities smarter and more inclusive will become increasingly important. The concept of smart cities is all about developing strategies that leverage data and technology to enhance urban life. The IoT plays a central role in collecting sensor data and then using the insights ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Kristena Louie. HoloLens 2 is now available, with breakthroughs in hardware design, AI, and mixed reality. Dynamics 365 mixed reality applications take full advantage of these breakthroughs to deliver even more immersive ways to learn, communicate, and collaborate hands free.With a HoloLens 2 device, front line workers using Dynamics 365 Remote Assist and Dynamics 365 Guides, can accomplish more, hands-free, using new eye tracking capabilities, voice inputs, and fully articulated hand tracking. Workers experience a more immersive hands-free environment, whether learning new skills on the job site or solving problems in real-time with technicians ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jaishree Subramania. As a company, we work every day to empower every person on the planet to achieve more. As part of that, we’re committed to investing in IoT and intelligent edge, two technology trends accelerating ubiquitous computing and bringing unparalleled opportunity for transformation across industries. We’ve been working hard to make our Azure IoT platform more open, security-enhanced, and scalable, as well as to create opportunities in new market areas and our growing partner ecosystem. Our core focus is addressing the industry challenge of securing connected devices at every layer and advancing IoT to ... Read More