Pedro Hernandez

Microsoft is no stranger to using Nvidia’s GPUs to speed up its cloud-delivered artificial intelligence workloads, but now the company is taking aim at high-end graphical workstations and virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) with its latest NV-series Azure virtual instances. The software giant this week announced three NV-series offerings that use Nvidia’s GRID virtualization platform to […]

Microsoft sees opportunity in Africa’s IT industry and startup scene. The Redmond, Wash. technology titan this week announced the planned opening its first cloud data centers in the African continent. “Few places in the world are as dynamic and diverse as Africa today,” wrote Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of the Cloud and Enterprise division […]

Microsoft wants to help demystify the business processes of its Dynamics 365 customers. Power BI, Microsoft’s cloud-based business intelligence (BI) and data visualization platform, is typically used to create interactive visualizations that unearth insights using a wide variety of business data. Now, joint Power BI and Dynamics 365 users have tool that can help them […]

Microsoft held its SharePoint Virtual Summit earlier this week, showing off many new features that are coming soon to SharePoint, and OneDrive. Among them is a new file-sharing experience for the latter that is better integrated into the built-in file management tools in Windows (7 and 10) and Mac. Sometime this summer, a new OneDrive […]

LinkedIn is rolling out new tools aimed at helping job seekers find new work and recruiters hunt down better matches for open positions. The professional and career-minded social network, now owned by Microsoft, announced that its Today’s Job Matches feature, which offers members a list of job openings that match their skill sets, will soon […]

Dr. Hasso Plattner, the often off-script co-founder of SAP and chairman of the company’s Supervisory Board, took to the stage May 17 at the SAPPHIRE NOW conference in Orlando, Fla.to outline his company’s efforts to “make all applications intelligent.” One of SAP’s own takes on adding intelligence to apps is the new CoPilot feature in […]

Microsoft and Indegene, a health care and pharmaceutical technology company, today announced a strategic alliance that brings together Dynamics 365 for Sales and the latter’s Omnipresence platform. Medical subject matter experts and sales personnel in life sciences organizations gain access to customer relationship management (CRM), omnichannel engagement, analytics and content management capabilities, from Indegene’s platform. […]

Like many large enterprises, SAP is undergoing a profound transformation of its own, said Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP, during his keynote address at the German business software giant’s SAPPHIRE NOW conference here in Orlando, Fla. Backed by many of today’s trendiest technologies, including the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence, McDermott said SAP […]

Skype Bots are evolving past their chat-based beginnings. The current selection of Skype Bots range from entertaining pastimes to online assistants that help users book travel deals. Soon, the next generation of bots on the online communications platform will be able to participate in video calls. During last week’s Build developer conference in Seattle, Microsoft […]

It was a stress-filled weekend for many IT workers this past weekend as the WannaCry ransomware attack spread, crippling Windows systems worldwide. In fact, some hospitals in the United Kingdom were forced to shut down in the wake of the attack. WannaCry is a weaponized exploit, part of a cyber-espionage toolkit that was allegedly stolen […]