Category: Innovations

March 30, 2018

Microsoft is making generally available Azure Availability Zones, starting in two regions — Iowa (US Central) and Paris (France Central). Availability Zones are meant to help protect customers from datacenter-level failures. The zones are located inside Azure regions and offer […]

March 28, 2018

Larry Ellison praised Amazon for ‘inventing’ the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market – but with the announcement of the first service based on Oracle’s much-touted autonomous database, the company aims to go bigger and better than the IaaS behemoth. […]

March 28, 2018

Google Cloud Platform is rounding out its developer tools for application performance management with Stackdriver Profiler, service that allows you to see how code actually performs in production. Stackdriver provides monitoring, logging and diagnostics for Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web […]

March 27, 2018

HPE Aruba has launched a new solution which utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The company says that the tool, dubbed NetInsight, will help enterprise players gain better visibility into activity on their […]

March 23, 2018

Those who attended Cloud Expo Europe earlier this week took their opportunity to assess the next level of cloud services, ranging from blockchain, to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. The cloud underpins these technologies and enables them to flourish, […]

March 22, 2018

Google is working on blockchain-related technologies to bolster the firm’s cloud business, reports suggest. According to Bloomberg, people familiar with the matter say that the tech giant is quietly working on blockchain technology to “head off competition from emerging startups” […]

March 19, 2018

The Oxford English Dictionary’s 2017 Hindi Word of the Year was “Aadhaar,” which in Sanskrit means foundation. News of the linguists’ pronouncement, covered in the Times of India, did not even have to mention why, other than to say it’s […]

March 16, 2018

In a recent Q&A with Data Center Knowledge, Kim Stevenson, senior VP and general manager of Solutions Segments for Lenovo’s Data Center Group, said the enterprise IT department of today should do more than simply making sure all the company’s […]

March 15, 2018

Arduino Sketches can now be used to program the Raspberry Pi, marking a moving together of two of the biggest maker platforms. The cloud-based Arduino Create platform is designed to simplify the creation of Internet of Things applications. Want to […]

March 14, 2018

84% of marketing organizations are implementing or expanding AI and machine learning in 2018. 75% of enterprises using AI and machine learning enhance customer satisfaction by more than 10%. 3 in 4 organizations implementing AI and machine learning increase sales […]

March 9, 2018

The sheer vastness of digital data that’s available for individuals is creating a new type of identity. Now, Microsoft is using blockchain technology to give people a way to manage and control all of the various elements of their digital […]

March 9, 2018

Dropbox continues to make progress after its IPO filing earlier this month, announcing a strategic partnership with Salesforce to connect platforms through new integrations. The two companies are in their own ways poster children of the software as a service […]

March 7, 2018

Every tech vendor these days is quick to slap the AI label on products and services. Up until today, I thought Microsoft had done an admirable job in refraining from doing this with Windows. But the shark has been jumped […]

March 5, 2018

Today at HIMSS Conference & Exhibition 2018, VMware, Inc., a leading innovator in enterprise software, highlighted several healthcare customers who are partnering with the company to transform the business and the practice of delivering patient care. Additionally, VMware will be […]

March 2, 2018

An artificial intelligence (AI) system tasked with playing retro 1980s arcade game Q*bert managed to secure impossibly high scores by exploiting an ancient bug. The bot was programmed to use evolutionary strategy (ES) algorithms, which includes machine learning (ML) and […]

March 2, 2018

A floating orb is expected to be the first AI assistant to help humans in space. Let’s get the low-hanging fruit out of the way: “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Developed by Airbus in partnership with […]

March 1, 2018

Microsoft is continuing to roll out more application programming interfaces (APIs), which enable developers to add customizable AI features to their applications. On March 1, Microsoft made available a paid public preview of its Custom Vision service; increased the set […]

February 28, 2018

Microsoft Corp. is releasing new cloud technologies to fight disease and help health-care companies abide by privacy laws as the software giant looks to win more business as the medical sector moves to internet-based computing. Microsoft unveiled a tool for […]

February 27, 2018

People have been talking about the difference between the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Internet of Everything (IoE) for many years now. While some say it’s just a difference in semantics, others believe the two are fundamentally different concepts. […]

February 23, 2018

Google’s ARCore is getting an update that brings improved environmental understanding and lets developers now publish AR apps to the Play Store. Launching at Mobile World Congress next week, ARCore 1.0 is out of preview and comes with a ton […]