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Using Blockchain To Securely Transfer And Verify Files

Lilian KasemJuly 30, 2019Jul 30, 201907/30/19

As 3D printing becomes an integral part of the manufacturing industries, there are new challenges that must be solved to promote mass adoption. Primarily, how do you securely transfer accredited schematics and verify data integrity once it's been delivered? In other words, how can you ensure the schematics were not tampered with in the midst ...

Preventing Rhino Poaching With Microsoft Azure

Olga LiakhovichMay 7, 2019May 7, 201905/7/19

Background In the last eight years, poaching in Africa has been happening at an alarming rate. Currently, the continent loses three rhinos a day. As part of our team’s mission to find new ways that technology can positively impact our world, we’ve been collaborating with the Combating Wildlife Crime team from Peace Parks Foundation (PPF...

Improving Safety and Efficiency in BMW Manufacturing Plants with an Open Source Platform for Managing Inventory Delivery

Peter Cornell AndringaDecember 19, 2018Dec 19, 201812/19/18

Background German car manufacturer BMW has always been at the forefront of technological advancement within the auto industry. And a major part of the company’s innovation focus is on its production system, ensuring quality and flexibility alike. When it comes to cutting-edge production systems, and more precisely logistics, new ...

Social Stream Pipeline on Databricks with auto-scaling and CI/CD using Travis

Mor ShemeshDecember 12, 2018Dec 12, 201812/12/18

Background For the tech companies designing tomorrow’s smart cities, making local authorities able to collect and analyze large quantities of data from many different sources and mediums is critical. Data can come from different sources – from posts on social media and data automatically collected from IoT devices, to information ...

Attaching and Detaching an Edge Node From a HDInsight Spark Cluster when running Dataiku Data Science Studio (DSS)

Amy BoydAugust 20, 2018Aug 20, 201808/20/18

Background Microsoft Global Partner Dataiku is the enterprise behind the Data Science Studio (DSS), a collaborative data science platform that enables companies to build and deliver their analytical solutions more efficiently. Microsoft has been working closely with Dataiku for many years to bring their solutions and integrations ...

Unsupervised driver safety estimation at scale, a collaboration with Pointer Telocation

Omri MendelsJuly 30, 2018Jul 30, 201807/30/18

Background Connected cars, which have the ability to collect and transfer data via cellular networks, offer us the opportunity to make road transport safer, more organized and more ecologically friendly. To push forward widespread adoption and help the technology fully enter the mainstream, manufacturers and third parties, like insurance ...

Building a Private Ethereum Consortium

Jason PoonJune 1, 2018Jun 1, 201806/1/18

Background The travel industry estimates 3-5% of bookings are disputed due to discrepancies in the data held by each party and can take months to resolve. Over the past two years, Microsoft and Webjet have collaborated to build a blockchain-based solution, Rezchain, that helps travel companies resolve data and avoid invoice reconciliation ...

Copy Custom VM Images on Azure

Tamir KamaraFebruary 15, 2018Feb 15, 201802/15/18

Background We recently worked with Namogoo, a cloud security and analytics startup that works with e-commerce and retail companies to protect against ads that direct customers to competitors. Virtual machines (VMs) with custom images are a key part of Namogoo's system. These images include all proprietary software and configurations ...

Autoscaling Deep Learning Training with Kubernetes

Rita ZhangNovember 21, 2017Nov 21, 201711/21/17

Background We recently partnered with Litbit, a San Jose-based startup, on a project to autoscale deep learning training. Litbit enables its customers to turn their "Internet of Things” into conscious personas that can learn, think, and do helpful things. In order to accomplish this goal, customers train their AI-empowered personas using ...

Moving High Scale Data and Compute from AWS to Azure for The Emedgene Genetics Intelligence Platform

Tomer RosenthalOctober 9, 2017Oct 9, 201710/9/17

Background While artificial intelligence (AI) is offering amazing data-driven insights across a range of industries, arguably one of the more important applications for us as humans has been in the field of genomics. Technologists have teamed up with geneticists to use AI technology to offer a better understanding of human DNA, in an ...

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