Pedro Hernandez

ORLANDO, Fla.—SAP’s big bet on cloud-delivered data analytics not only involves adding new intelligent capabilities to SAP Analytics Cloud, it also means bringing many of the product’s capabilities to other SAP business applications. SAP Analytics Cloud, an artificial intelligence-infused real-time analytics-as-a-service offering, is now directly embedded into the SAP S/4HANA Cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) application suite—not to […]

ORLANDO, Fla.—Kicking off the SAPPHIRE 2018 conference here on June 5, Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP, called SAP HANA the “soul of SAP” during his opening remarks. Since its launch in 2010, the in-memory database has reinvigorated the German software provider’s business and introduced its customers to the possibilities of real-time computing. Now, in the […]

Microsoft is acquiring GitHub for $7.5 in Microsoft stock, the companies announced today. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2018, pending regulatory approval.  San Francisco-based GitHub runs the code repository service of the same name, home to many open source projects and popular with developer teams of all stripes, from fledging […]

Now that GDPR’s enforcement date has passed, Microsoft is getting back to growing its Azure ecosystem for the growing number of businesses that are placing their database workloads in the cloud. On May 25, just as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) governing data privacy went into effect, Microsoft released a set of […]

Microsoft’s .NET Core 3 won’t arrive until 2019, but in the meantime, the company is making the wait a little more bearable for developers who rely on the framework by rolling out new performance tweaks and expanded functionality. Microsoft on May 30 released version 2.1 of .NET Core, the software giant’s open-source, cross-platform implementation of […]

Microsoft continues to reduce the size of its Windows Server Core container images in anticipation of Windows Server 2019’s impending release. Windows Server Core is a lightweight version of Windows Server tailored to virtualized application containers. Lacking a graphical interface and other software components that aren’t essential to running applications and software services, Windows Server […]

Microsoft wants to make finding just the right image online less of a crapshoot by using deep learning to help its Bing Image Search engine return more relevant results to users. Deep learning is a computationally intensive subset of machine learning that enables advanced analytical workloads. Using neural networks modeled after the human brain, deep […]

Data security and regulatory compliance are hot topics these days, due in no small part to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) going into effect on May 25. Helping its cloud customers better adapt to the tough new data privacy provisions in the law, Microsoft announced the general availability of a handful of […]

Microsoft’s recently released Windows 10 April 2018 Update for PCs contains a bevy of new features that are valuable to IT departments. Soon, the software maker will be bringing some of that improved IT-friendliness to HoloLens, its mixed-reality headset. Lorraine Bardeen, general manager of Mixed Reality Workplace at Microsoft, announced that the Windows 10 April […]

Microsoft, Accenture’s Applied Intelligence unit and Azure cloud services specialist Avanade, are teaming up to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) applications that fit the needs of enterprises and the industry verticals in which they operate. Although Microsoft has no shortage of developer tools and cloud services that help organizations harness the power of AI, the Redmond, […]