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Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things

A couple of weeks ago, I spoke on a panel at the IoT Tech Expo being held in London. The topic of the panel was “IoT and AI data analytics for intelligent decision making.” Combining two topics that are very hyped at the moment guaranteed a good attendance, but the question at the centre of the discussion was meaningful. Can Artificial Intelligence help improve decision making when faced with the morass of data produced by Internet of Things systems. Perhaps a … Read more…

Comparing the Cloud giants – Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure

Last month saw a number of number of the tech giants provide their most recent quarterly earnings. For both Amazon and Microsoft, their cloud activities gained a lot of headlines and column-inches in both the technical and business press. Although adopting different growth and technology strategy, their cloud computing offerings represent a significant engine of growth going forward, and is becoming an area of ever-more intense competition. Here we take a brief look at how they compare and what the … Read more…

Amazon still king of the Cloud, though Microsoft is catching up

You can’t go far in reading the tech press before coming across the term ‘cloud’, a term that causes no end of confusion. In the enterprise IT world, the public cloud refers to the setup where IT applications and capabilities are provided to a company by an external provider via Internet connections on a shared infrastructure. This means that the company can benefit from shared economies of scale as other customers use the same infrastructure, and the same scale also provides the … Read more…