Pedro Hernandez

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, sparked some controversy in early September when he said that an artificial intelligence (AI) arms race could lead to World War III. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella doesn’t see things the same way, although it should be noted that he heads a corporation that is investing heavily in AI. […]

Soon, more Dynamics 365 customer service scenarios will involve interacting with a virtual agent powered by Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the software giant announced during its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla. Sept. 25-29. Microsoft is layering AI capabilities onto Dynamics 365, a cloud-enabled suite of customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning business […]

Turbonomic is venturing beyond helping enterprises manage their cloud computing resources, the hybrid cloud management specialist announced on Sept. 27 at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla. The Boston-based company officially unveiled Turbonomic 6.0, now featuring new storage and database optimization capabilities for both Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), along with other […]

SAP Data Hub, a new enterprise data management, integration and governance offering, made its official debut on Sept. 25 during a media and partner event at the business software maker’s perch high above the gleaming new Hudson Yards complex in New York City. Echoing the vast diversity of people and landmarks that can be spied […]

Microsoft Teams is growing up fast. The chat-based group collaboration app that was released in March 2017 will soon replace the Skype of Business client, Microsoft announced during its Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla. Sept.25-29. Skype for Business, itself a successor to Lync, is Microsoft’s unified communications software platform for enterprises. Like the consumer Skype […]

Microsoft unveiled a new service at its Ignite conference on Sept. 25 that makes it easier for developers and data scientists to run and track their artificial intelligence (AI) experiments. “AI is all about experimentation,” Joseph Sirosh, corporate vice president of Cloud AI at Microsoft, told eWEEK. The problem is, as with most emerging technologies, […]

Microsoft Office 365 is already used by millions of executives, managers and rank-and-file employees at their desks and increasingly on the move. Now, with its new Microsoft 365 F1 Enterprise plan, the software giant is targeting deskless, or so-called “firstline, workers, the folks on factory floors, in restaurants and countless other hands-on working environments. “Firstline […]

Microsoft wants to take the worry out of deploying critical applications on its Azure cloud computing platform with Azure Availability Zones, a new high availability service, the company announced on Sept. 21. “Availability Zones increase Azure’s resiliency capabilities and broaden options for customers to choose the business continuity solution that is right for their organization,” […]

Executives from Microsoft, Facebook and Telxius, along with area politicians, gathered in Williamsburg, Va. on Sept. 22 to announce that an undersea cable called Marea—Spanish for “tide”—had been completed. The fiber-optic cable links Virginia Beach, Va. and Bilbao, Spain to transmit data at speeds of 160 terabits per second. According to the companies, that’s 16 […]

SAP Hybris, the German business software maker’s cloud-enabled enterprise e-commerce and customer-engagement platform, is removing roadblocks between airlines and today’s mobile- and web-savvy travelers. The company announced on Sept. 19 that it had released a new version of its Travel Accelerator for SAP Hybris that carries an International Air Transport Association (IATA) New Distribution Capability […]