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PayPal details its digital wallet plans for 2021, including crypto, Honey integration and more
PayPal this week laid out its vision for the future of its digital wallet platform and its PayPal and Venmo apps. During its third-quarter earnings
The democratization of insights: Empowering data analysts and business users
A new set of big data tools (spurred by the release of academic papers describing Google’s internal technology) gave data engineering experts the ability to collect and store this new data, making it available to expert users who could generate insights.
Unfortunately, even with this new data made available and accessible, most business users didn’t have the skills to generate insights
Automating DBA tasks on Amazon Redshift securely using AWS IAM, AWS Lambda, Amazon EventBridge, and stored procedures
For this post, we create two DBA tasks in the form of a stored procedure and views inside the Amazon Redshift cluster: Drop unused tables Clean up idle connections We then schedule the running of these tasks using EventBridge and Lambda.
For this solution, we use the following AWS services: AWS Lambda – To run a specified query and invoke views or stored procedures inside your Amazon Redshift cluster.
Deep Learning’s Most Important Ideas – A Brief Historical Review
The goal of this post is to review well-adopted ideas that have stood the test of time. I will present a small set of techniques
How one telecom reimagined IT to better serve customers with more personalized content
Real-time insights into the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation and its impact on all key stakeholders in the healthcare supply chain, including patients, physicians, and health systems, is a key asset in helping companies adapt based on local market dynamics and remain resilient to future disruptions
History’s Lessons on Competitive Innovation
The Germans didn’t depend on a select group of high-level officers and industry leaders taking a “think tank” approach by deliberating their way to a new tactic, nor did they assume that the answer was (just) technology like planes and tanks.
If the problem during World War I was the inability to gain and hold an innovative edge, it must have seemed to French leaders that the interwar period promised just the breather they needed
3 Ways CIOs Can Help CEOs Restore Growth
The Gartner CEO Survey found that the crisis has led 65% of CEOs to focus more on accelerating digital business transformation.
“Scale up the digital mainstream, but don’t push experimental extremes,” said Raskino.
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare: Unlocking the power of health data for better care
Microsoft Cloud for Healthcare brings together trusted capabilities to customers and partners that enhance patient engagement, empower health team collaboration, and improve clinical and operational insights.
The Microsoft Health Bot service is an Azure cloud service that empowers healthcare organizations to rapidly build and deploy AI-powered virtual health assistants and chatbots that can be used to enhance their processes, self-service, and cost reduction efforts.
Solving IoT device security at scale through standards
We’re happy to share general availability of the Edge Compute Node protection profile (NSCIB-CC-0112146-CR or simply ECN PP), a Common Criteria (ISO 15408) standard, which guides you to engineer, claim, evaluate, and consume security for IoT devices.
Edge Compute Node protection profile (ECN PP)—now available—guides you to engineer, claim, evaluate, and consume device security for IoT.
How Proactive Customer Service Will Transform Customer Experience
Gartner research reveals that a dynamic customer engagement (DCE) strategy enables customer service and support leaders to transform their service experience through personalized proactive conversations with customers.
Customer service leaders must implement DCE to overcome the drawbacks of reactive experiences and move to a proactive service approach.
These inspiring small and medium businesses are helping the world navigate COVID-19 together
As Google Cloud small and medium business (SMB) customers keep innovating to support governments and organizations around the world, we share some of their stories to inspire you in the fight against this virus: Giving millions the information they urgently need COVID-19 triggered an overwhelming need for information, flooding healthcare support centers with calls.
Making remote healthcare and medical research possible For our most vulnerable, who need to monitor their health more often due to COVID-19 risks, lockdown has posed a new challenge: regular visits to the doctor were no longer recommended
Microsoft named a Leader in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Industrial IoT Platforms
As a founding member of the Open Manufacturing Platform (OMP), an alliance founded in 2019 to help manufacturing companies accelerate innovation at scale through cross-industry collaboration, knowledge, and data sharing, we are also excited to share the Leaders quadrant in this report with two key Azure partners, Hitachi and PTC.
This why we are sharing that Gartner has positioned Microsoft as a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Industrial IoT Platforms .
Weka announces cloud-native, unified storage solutions for the entire data lifecycle
Weka has developed reference architectures (RAs) with leading object storage technology alliances, like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudian, IBM, Seagate, Quantum, Scality , and others in Weka’s Technology Alliance Program, to deliver cost-efficient, cloud-native data storage solutions at any scale.
WekaFS provides the ease of managing petabytes of data in a single, unified namespace wherever in the pipeline the data is stored, while also delivering the best performance to accelerate artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), genomics research, high-performance computing (HPC), and high-performance data analytics (HPDA) workflows