Microsoft explores AI’s potential to tackle humanitarian crises
Microsoft has launched a program aimed at leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to aid humanitarian causes.
Microsoft has launched a program aimed at leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to aid humanitarian causes.
Microsoft’s new Azure edge computing offerings are helping customers extend the reach of its cloud-based machine learning services, according to Clayton Fernandez, the company’s global director, Internet of Things.
Staff at Canberra’s Digital Transformation Agency soon will no longer need to double up on email accounts, logins, passwords and calendars.
Microsoft shares are up 180 percent since Satya Nadella took over, and its market cap edged above US$800 billion for the first time earlier this month.
US retail giant Walmart says it has entered into a strategic partnership with Microsoft for wider use of cloud and artificial intelligence technology, in a sign of major rivals of Amazon.com coming together.
Digital signing company DocuSign has installed its software in three Microsoft Azure data centres in Australia – in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra – to enable it to meet the on-shore storage requirements of Australian government customers.
Microsoft has taken another step towards allowing its Azure customers to leverage the capabilities of the field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that the company has installed in its cloud data centres.
The growth of “confidential computing” approaches will help clear away any “last mile barriers” for enterprises that are concerned about processing highly sensitive data in the cloud, Microsoft Azure chief technology officer Mark Russinovich believes.
Microsoft’s Azure cloud services have received the greenlight to store federal government data classified at the Protected level, the government announced today.
The Supreme Court of Australia is looking at the possibility of using “virtual courtrooms” for hearings — a move made possible by the court’s wholesale shift to the cloud.
Microsoft today officially launched the latest regions for its Azure cloud computing service: Australia Central 1 and Australia Central 2. The new Azure regions, based in Canberra, are designed to host the mission-critical applications of government departments and agencies as well as those of some of Australia’s most important private sector enterprises.
A new Microsoft initiative aims to broaden cloud skills across the public sector ecosystem, with up to 5000 employees at government agencies, systems integrators and ISVs to receive training in the use of the company’s Azure family of cloud services by 2020.
ANZ, the first — and so far only — named Australian customer for Azure Stack, Microsoft’s recently released on-premises version of its Azure public cloud service, is using the system to avoid having to move masses of data for a new application into the public cloud.
ASX-listed packaging manufacturer Pact Group is examining the potential of cloud-based AI services to boost workplace safety.
Microsoft has unveiled details of the Coco Framework, which it says will help boost enterprise efforts to develop blockchain-based services.