Intelligent manufacturing transformation can bring great changes, such as connecting the sales organization with field services. Moving to the cloud also provides benefits such as an intelligent supply chain and innovations enabled by connected products. As such, digital transformation is the goal of many, as it can mean finding a competitive advantage. The Azure platform […]
Archives for August 2019
Better together, synergistic results from digital transformation
Improving Azure Virtual Machines resiliency with Project Tardigrade
"Our goal is to empower organizations to run their workloads reliably on Azure. With this as our guiding principle, we are continuously investing in evolving the Azure platform to become fault resilient, not only to boost business productivity but also to provide a seamless customer experience. Last month I published a blog post highlighting several […]
Trafigura in ship fuel venture with Frontline, Golden Ocean
Commodities trader Trafigura is joining forces with shipping firms Frontline and Golden Ocean to supply marine fuel ahead of a shake up in regulation which could disrupt delivery and cause prices to spike.
Your single source for Azure best practices
Optimizing your Azure workloads can feel like a time-consuming task. With so many services that are constantly evolving it’s challenging to stay on top of, let alone implement, the latest best practices and ensure you’re operating in a cost-efficient manner that delivers security, performance, and reliability. Many Azure services offer best practices and advice. Examples […]
Enterprise Guide to Digital Transformation
Don’t let IT modernization be the bane of your existence. This curated collection of articles will give you more clarity and help you get started.
Amazon Releases AWS Lake Formation to General Availability
Recently, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of AWS Lake Formation, a fully managed service that makes it much easier for customers to build, secure, and manage data lakes. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Announcing the preview of GitHub Actions for Azure
On Thursday, August 8, 2019, GitHub announced the preview of GitHub Actions with support for Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). Actions makes it possible to create simple, yet powerful pipelines and automate software compilation and delivery. Today, we are announcing the preview of GitHub Actions for Azure. With these new Actions, developers can quickly […]
What could go wrong when a military AI system knows everything?
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“Two parallel quests to understand learning — in machines and in our own heads — are converging in a small group of scientists who think that artificial intelligence may hold an answer to the deep-rooted mystery of how our brains learn… If machines and animals do learn in similar ways — still an open question among researchers — figuring out how […]
Gold gains as equities slip on trade woes, growth concerns
Gold prices rose on Monday and stayed above the key $1,500 per ounce psychological level, as stock markets slipped on concerns about global economic growth and the U.S.-China trade dispute, triggering safe haven bids.