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Azure Sphere, a Secure IoT Platform, Reaches General Availability
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Sphere, an end-to-end IoT Security Platform. The Azure Sphere platform focuses on three key areas including microcontroller units (MCUs), a secure operating system (OS), which is based upon Linux, and providing cloud security services including software updates and detecting emerging threats.
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AWS IoT Day Recap: Eight New Powerful Features
As part of AWS re:Invent pre-event announcements, Amazon shared eight new features available within their Internet of Things platform. These new features include: secure tunneling, configurable endpoints, custom domains for configurable endpoints, enhanced custom authorizers, fleet provisioning, Alexa Voice Services (AVS) integration and AWS IoT Greengrass enhancements.
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Data Science at the Intersection of Emerging Technologies
Kirk Borne, principal data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, gave a keynote presentation at this year’s Oracle Code One Conference on how the connection between emerging technologies, data, and machine learning are transforming data into value. Emerging technological innovations like AI, robotics, computer vision and more, are enabled by data and create value from data.
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Extending the Reach of SQL to IoT Microcontrollers, ITTIA and Cypress Release SDK
In a recent press release, ITTIA, a maker of embedded database software for Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and Cypress Semiconductor Corp, announced a collaborative IoT device and data management capability. The new capability integrates SQL into the WICED SDK and unlocks the power of flash media on Cypress wireless microcontrollers (MCU).
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Simplifying Device Connectivity, Microsoft Releases IoT Plug and Play in Preview
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced the preview of IoT Plug and Play to simplify device integrations through a published capability model, which is based on the Digital Twin definition language. When device manufacturers incorporate this capability model, their products are eligible to appear in the Azure Certified for IoT device catalog.
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Making Robots More Intelligent, Microsoft Releases Autonomous Systems Platform
At the recent Build conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced, in limited preview, an end-to-end toolchain to help developers and organizations build autonomous systems for their industries. The platform includes machine teaching tools and simulation technologies that enable intelligent robotic systems to complete tasks like running autonomous forklifts and robotic inspection platforms.
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Open Source Testware for Systematic IoT Testing: Eclipse IoT-Testware
The project Eclipse IoT-Testware is delivering free open-source test tools and programs for the industry and companies developing Internet-of-Things (IoT) solutions. At TestCon Moscow 2019 Axel Rennoch, senior scientist at Fraunhofer FOKUS, spoke about quality assurance for IoT.
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Rancher Labs Release Lightweight Kubernetes Distribution "k3s" for Edge, IoT and Telco Platforms
Rancher Labs has announced a new open source project, k3s, which is a lightweight Kubernetes distribution that has been optimised towards running within resource-constrained environments, such as edge or IoT locations, or within telco and manufacturing systems.
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Microsoft Announces Azure IoT Edge Support for Virtual Machines
In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced support for Azure IoT Edge on virtual machines. This new capability expands Microsoft’s support for virtualization platforms, including VMware vSphere and Hyper-V. Using these virtualization platforms, customers can choose to run Azure IoT Edge on Windows, a variety of Linux distributions or containers.
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StackPointCloud Enhances Istio and Kubernetes Functionality in Cloud-Native Management Platform
StackPointCloud, provider of a cloud-native management platform for Istio and Kubernetes, has added a series of tools to help enterprises deploy and use microservices and containers. Users can now manage Istio service meshes across Kubernetes clusters using their preferred cloud providers and StackPointCloud has partnered with Packet Host to help customers use ARM with their Kubernetes clusters.
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Walmart Files Patent for Blockchain-Based Delivery System
On March 1st, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released a patent application by Walmart that describes a “Smart Package” system built upon blockchain technology to aid in the tracking of packages between sellers, couriers and buyers. The patent also has references to autonomous vehicle systems and IoT sensors.
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Google Cloud Releases Public Beta of Cloud IoT Core
Google Cloud has recently released a public beta of their Cloud IoT Core service, a fully managed offering for IoT messaging and device management.
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Microsoft Adds Root Cause Analysis and Time Exploration Updates to Azure Time Series Insights
This past April, Microsoft announced updates to their Azure Internet of Things (IoT) platform. One of the announcements that InfoQ has been tracking includes the emergence of Azure Time Series Insights (TSI). Microsoft’s Time Series Insights service is currently in public preview and Microsoft has recently added new features including Root Cause Analysis and updates to Time Exploration.
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Google Joins IoT Race, Launches Cloud IoT Core Private Beta
In a recent blog post, Google announced a private beta of their Google IoT Core platform. Within this IoT platform, customers will be able to securely connect devices to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) where other data analytics services can be integrated. Customers can then use this data to provide actionable insight for their organization in order to drive better business results.
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Multiple DNS Providers to Mitigate DDoS Attacks
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks against Domain Name System (DNS) providers are increasing in number and scale with the proliferation of insecure IoT devices. While DNS providers have various methods of protecting themselves against such attacks, one of the ways for a website to protect itself is to use multiple DNS providers.