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Adaptive Biotechnologies And Microsoft Expand Partnership To Decode COVID-19 Immune Response And Provide Open Data Access
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. and Microsoft Corp. announced they will leverage their existing partnership mapping population-wide adaptive immune responses to diseases at scale to study COVID-19. Finding the relevant immune response signature may advance solutions to diagnose, treat and prevent the disease, augmenting existing research efforts that primarily focus on the biology of the virus. These data will …
Kubota Announces Strategic Alliance With Microsoft To Accelerate Its Digital Transformation
Kubota Corporation and Microsoft announced a multi-year strategic alliance aimed at accelerating Kubota’s digital transformation. Through the alliance, Kubota will migrate its IT infrastructure and SAP mission-critical systems onto Microsoft Azure’s trusted cloud platform. By standardizing on Microsoft Azure, Kubota will streamline its business operations, accelerate innovation, and shift to a solution provision model. Additionally, the …
Open Manufacturing Platform Expands: Anheuser-Busch InBev, BMW Group, Bosch, Microsoft and ZF Team Up To Accelerate Manufacturing Innovation At Scale
The Open Manufacturing Platform (OMP) has expanded, with new steering committee members and new working groups established. OMP is an alliance founded in 2019 to help manufacturing companies accelerate innovation at scale through cross-industry collaboration, knowledge and data sharing as well as access to new technologies. The OMP was founded under the umbrella of the …
Microsoft Continues To Strengthen Its Cloud Business
Microsoft continues to gain strength in its Intelligent Cloud segment for the quarter that ended on December 31, 2019. This is according to the reported figures from the company’s January 29 press release. Massive growth, numerous achievements According to Microsoft, the revenue coming from the Intelligent Cloud segment reached US$ 11.9 billion last quarter. This …
Microsoft Connected Vehicle Platform: Trends And Investment Areas
The past year has been eventful for a lot of reasons. At Microsoft, we’ve expanded our partnerships, including Volkswagen, LG Electronics, Faurecia, TomTom, and more, and taken the wraps off new thinking such as at CES, where we recently demonstrated our approach to in-vehicle compute and software architecture. Looking ahead, areas that were once nominally related …
Microsoft And Genesys Expand Partnership To Help Enterprises Seize The Power Of The Cloud For Better Customer Experiences
Microsoft Corp. and Genesys have expanded their partnership to provide enterprises with a new cloud service for contact centers that enables them to deliver superior interactions for customers. With the omnichannel customer experience solution Genesys Engage™ running on Microsoft Azure, enterprises have the security and scalability they need to manage the complexities involved with connecting every …
Microsoft Sustainability Calculator Helps Enterprises Analyze The Carbon Emissions Of Their IT infrastructure
Microsoft announces the availability of the Microsoft Sustainability Calculator, a Power BI application for Azure enterprise customers that provides new insight into carbon emissions data associated with their Azure services. Migrating from traditional datacenters to cloud services significantly improves efficiencies, however, enterprises are now looking for additional insights into the carbon impact of their cloud workloads …
A Quarter Of Computers Still Run On Windows 7
An estimated 26.6% of the world population still uses Windows 7 as their desktop operating system, Net Marketshare reports. End of support Now more than a decade since its release, Microsoft finally cut support for Windows 7 last January 14. This means that none of these things will be provided anymore: Security updates Software …
Microsoft Announces It Will Be Carbon Negative By 2030
Microsoft Corp. announced on January 16 an ambitious goal and a new plan to reduce and ultimately remove its carbon footprint. By 2030 Microsoft will be carbon negative, and by 2050 Microsoft will remove from the environment all the carbon the company has emitted either directly or by electrical consumption since it was founded in …
Microsoft Announces Several Enhancements For Azure Disks
Microsoft has announced several enhancements for Azure Disks at their Microsoft Ignite Conference held last November. Here is a quick rundown. Bursting Enhancements Azure Disks now support new 4, 8, and 16 GB sizes on Premium SSD and Standard SSD. Applicable Premium SSD disks can now burst up to 30x of the provisioned performance target, …