4 ways AI, computer vision, and related technologies expand IoT solutions

By Dustin Ward

Inspecting five million vehicle welds every day requires the ability to check a weld’s quality every 17 milliseconds—an impossible challenge for a human. This type of quality control task is just one of many where the combined technologies of computer vision and AI excel. Cameras, microphones, and a wide array of sophisticated sensors used in…

Unlocking the enterprise opportunity with 5G, edge compute, and cloud

By Dustin Ward

The power of 5G, IoT, and real-time AI will unlock new and innovative services for enterprises across the world to accelerate their transformation toward Industry 4.0 as they evolve and adopt diverse new business models. The partnerships created by operators, managed solution providers (MSPs), and cloud solution providers (CSPs) will be at the center of…

Advancing in-datacenter critical environment infrastructure availability

By Dustin Ward

“One of the foundations of the Azure cloud computing platform is the availability of the critical environment (CE) infrastructure, which provides power and cooling to IT infrastructure in our datacenters around the world. For today’s post in our Advancing Reliability series, I’ve asked Reliability Engineering Director Randy Kong from our Cloud Operations and Innovation Engineering Team to…