The first big thing in the cloud was Infrastructure as a Service where customers could provision virtual machines and storage all by themselves. The second wave of cloud was centered around data. From relational databases to big data to graph databases, cloud providers offered data platform services covering a wide range of offerings, the cloud was Platform as a Service....
Cloud computing is now mainstream, with 90% of enterprises planning to maintain or boost spending on it this year. Worldwide spending on public cloud services alone is expected to grow 19.4% over the next five years to more than $141B in 2019, according to IDC, nearly six times the growth rate of enterprise IT spending as a whole. The “Big...
Become an AI expert through Microsoft hands-on training course program, dive in and learn how to start building intelligence into your solutions with the Microsoft AI platform. The school includes AI services and tools like: Cognitive Services Bot Framework Azure Machine Learning Visual Studio Code Tools for AI Cognitive Toolkit In general the AI platform enables any developer to code...
The adoption of AI in business and society is being spurred on by tech giants with resources to design, build and roll out services affordable and simple enough for everyday use. Microsoft is one of those at the forefront. This year, the words Artificial Intelligence appeared in a vision statement for the first time, reaffirming that smart, learning machines are...
At the end of 2016 year Microsoft announced the availability of a set of services called Microsoft Cognitive Services. Cognitive Services provides simple APIs that handle common use cases, such as recognizing speech or performing facial recognition on an image. These APIs can be broken down into five main categories: vision, speech, language, knowledge, and search. They are all based on...
Satya Nadella (CEO of Microsoft) in March 2016 announced that intelligent bots are a Microsoft’s top priority in its strategy. In August 2017 Microsoft adapted its mission statement accordingly. In short, the words "mobile first" and "cloud first" have changed to "AI first". Microsoft is going for an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge based on artificial intelligence, the company...
