Providing users fast and reliable access to their cloud services, apps, and content is pivotal to a business’ success. The latency when accessing cloud-based services can be the inhibitor to cloud adoption or migration. In most cases, this is caused by commercial internet connections that aren’t tailored to today’s global cloud needs. Through deployment and […]
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AI can help prevent mass shootings
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech have had limited success. A new advance in real-time hand tracking from Google’s AI labs, however, could be the breakthrough some have been waiting for. The new technique uses a few […]
AICPA Proposes New SAS on Auditing Accounting Estimates
The AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board (ASB) has issued the Exposure Draft, Proposed Statement on Auditing Standards: Auditing Accounting Estimates and Related Disclosures. The comment deadline is November 22, 2019. The ASB developed the Exposure Draft as part of its Enhancing Audit Quality Initiative project to enhance the auditing standards relating to auditing accounting estimates. As […]
Wall Street rises after Trump’s softer stance on trade
Wall Street’s main indexes rose 1% on Monday as U.S. President Donald Trump eased his stance on trade with China, calming investor nerves after an intense feud between the world’s top two economies last week sent stocks tumbling.
VMworld: Look at Acquisitions for Virtualization’s Cloud Play
VMware’s buying spree is part of its efforts to transform beyond its virtualization roots and into a container- and Kubernetes-focused cloud everything company.
3 Ways to Increase Audit Efficiency While Adding Value
Technology is transforming the practice of audit at an unprecedented pace. In fact, it’s not hard to envision audits in the future as entirely untouched by human hands. Indeed this is an exciting future to consider. While you contemplate the long-term implications, though, don’t overlook how technologies available today can help you automate many routine […]
Harnessing the power of the Location of Things with Azure Maps
The Internet of Things (IoT) is the beginning of accessing planetary-scale insights. With the mass adoption of IoT and the very near future explosion of sensors, connectivity, and computing, humanity is on the cusp of a fully connected, intelligent world. We will be part of the generation that realizes the data-rich, algorithmically deterministic lifestyle the […]
Azure Load Balancer becomes more efficient
Azure introduced an advanced, more efficient Load Balancer platform in late 2017. This platform adds a whole new set of abilities for customer workloads using the new Standard Load Balancer. One of the key additions the new Load Balancer platform brings, is a simplified, more predictable and efficient outbound connectivity management. While already integrated with […]
Chatbots Should Be Your Most Reliable ‘Employee’
For those starting out, there are five key steps to help elevate and influence customer journeys and build strong relationships and loyalty with audiences.
Trump, Abe agree on principles of trade deal at G7
President Donald Trump on Sunday said he and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had agreed on the principles of a trade deal that would probably be signed next month in New York.