Real-time application scenarios such as chat for streaming videos, interactive whiteboards for remote education, and IoT dashboards are becoming ever more popular. Businesses are keen to build such applications for enhanced user experiences and real-time interactions with end customers. Today, we are announcing the preview of the Azure Web PubSub service for building real-time web applications […]
Archives for April 2021
The AI Ecosystem: Mapping the Future of Data Science
A new artificial intelligence landscape is emerging, enabling a new wave of innovation for those with the skills and structure to seize the opportunity. Over the past year, our reliance on technology to help us keep in touch, stay safe, work, shop, and more has hugely accelerated our use of data. Time and again, we’ve […]
Microsoft acquires Kinvolk to accelerate container-optimized innovation
The ability to run Kubernetes anywhere, whether in the cloud or on-premises, has been a high priority for Azure customers looking to rapidly innovate, with increasing customer focus on the benefits of container-optimized workloads and operating systems, lean application modernization, easier operations, and platform resiliency. To support this rapid evolution, we’re announcing that Microsoft has acquired […]
802.1X: What you need to know about this LAN-authentication standard
When devics on enterprise LANs need to connect to other devices, they need a standard method for identifying each other to ensure they are communicating with the device they want to, and that’s what 802.1x does. This article tells where it came from and how it works. 802.1x defined IEEE 802.1X is a standard that […]
Speediest: Here are the states with the fastest internet
A new report from High Speed Internet revealed which states have the fastest—and the slowest—internet speeds in the U.S. The results may surprise you. Image: iStock/alphaspirit Anyone turning to the internet for information or entertainment will all tell you the same thing: They’re impressed with the fastest internet. It’s satisfying when search results are instantly […]
IoT MVNOs need to address the threats to their business
By Tom Rebbeck, lead analyst operator business services and IoT at Analysys Mason. “The two pillars of the IoT MVNO offer – low prices and more support than MNOs offer – are under threat, and MVNOs need to respond to these challenges.” The original IoT MVNO model worked well and was stable while the market […]
Senet and SenRa Reach Major LoRaWAN® Network Deployment Milestones and Partner on Global Expansion
Senet Network Management System Powers Local, Regional and Global IoT Network Growth. Senet, Inc. and SenRa Tech Pvt. Ltd., a PAN India LoRaWAN® network service provider, today announced several significant milestones in their partnership to design, deploy and manage highly scalable LoRaWAN networks globally. These milestones build on a partnership formed in 2017 in which […]
Mining Company Raspadskaya Chooses Orange Business Services IoT Solution
IoT solution tracks unloading process to ensure separated coal grades Process tracked at the warehouse in real time Raspadskaya, a Russian coal mining company partly owned by British steel making and mining group EVRAZ, has deployed an Orange Business Services bespoke IoT solution at its Russian coal preparation factory. The system plays a key role […]
Semtech Unveils LoRa® Corecell Reference Design for Full Duplex Gateway Applications
New LoRa Core™ product improves LoRaWAN network communication efficiency and reduces time and cost of operational management of end devices. Semtech Corporation today announced the launch of a new product in its LoRa Core™ portfolio, the LoRa® Corecell Reference Design for full duplex gateway applications in the U.S. 902 – 928MHz ISM band. The new […]
Article: Indestructible Storage in the Cloud with Apache Bookkeeper
At Salesforce, we required a storage system that could work with two kinds of streams, one stream for write-ahead logs and one for data. But we have competing requirements from both of the streams. Being the pioneers in cloud computing, we also required our storage system to be cloud-aware as the requirements of availability and […]