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Alexa-enabled roadside assist provides fast, intuitive help for U.S. motorists in a bind
Remember that feeling of frustration when your car won’t start? Or a flat tire strands you on the side of the road? Instead of speeding down the highway, you’re digging through the glove compartment or searching online for a tow-truck company. Now, thanks to voice-activated assistant technology, there’s an easier way to get help. “You ...
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Amazon SageMaker helps lead machine learning models to the edge
Machine learning has experienced an incredible increase in usage in the past couple of years. In 2017, deploying machine learning models was considered extremely difficult, something only major organizations had the resources to consider. Then, Amazon Web Services Inc. released the Amazon SageMaker machine learning service. “Customers saw it was much easier to do machine ...
Reinventing an entire industry, AWS claims the right tools at the right time for finance sector
Sometimes going virtual is better. Amazon Web Services Inc. normally attracts around 50,000 people to its annual re:Invent conference. But this year, virtual re:Invent has seen enrollment rocket to over half a million, with speeches and sessions streamed over three weeks instead of the usual four days. The key takeaway was that Amazon is looking ...
Maximus and Insight: A case study in the importance of partnership to successful digital transformation
Before COVID-19 there were many reasons to become a digital company. The speed and agility of cloud-based operations mean better customer service, more efficient operations, and all that lovely data to analyze for market-advantage. But the process was expensive and complex, so many companies were hovering on the fence. Now, under the strain of a ...
Q&A: As Snowflake continues to break market records, what makes the company so special?
Amongst all the chaos of 2020, the Snowflake Inc. story is a fairytale of business success. Not content with having the biggest software initial public offering in history, Snowflake is continuing to break records. Its first earnings report as a public company caused share prices to rocket up 40% in a week, and yesterday its ...
Q&A: AWS helps partner ecosystem answer wake-up call for cloud adoption
Digital transformation is never an easy task, especially for companies forced to adapt fast under the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic. But even the most demanding transitions are easier with help. This is why Amazon Web Services Inc. is there to support its partner ecosystem as they face the cloud adoption challenge. Taking an in-depth look ...
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With a cloud boost, supersonic flight offers hope for a new era of global travel
Concorde was supposed to revolutionize long-haul travel. But despite its promise, the elegant supersonic aircraft never managed to become cheap enough for regular flights. Now, almost half a century after Concorde first took to the skies, cloud-powered supersonic planes could make air travel faster, cheaper and safer than ever before. “What we’re doing here at Boom ...
Presidio accelerates path to ‘cloud goodness’ for organizations
Leveraging the power of cloud computing is key to businesses surviving (and thriving) in and after the current pandemic. But expanding existing information technology teams to manage services in-house is a massive undertaking — one that most executives don’t want to deal with. Hence the rise of managed services providers that offer to help companies ...
AWS Public Sector performs under the pressures of pandemic transformation
The big message at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s re:Invent 2020 event was “Transform or Die.” This usually refers to the pressure on private companies to up the ante in their cloud game. But when it comes to the public sector, it is vulnerable citizens that are table stakes. Take the Los Angeles department of children ...
Logitech leverages connectivity for fresh data, deep insights and competitive advantage
As the importance of data to drive business value has grown, it has moved out of the information technology domain and into the awareness of the C-suite. There, like the muffins on the boardroom table, the fresher the insights arrive, the better they are. “If you want to be data-driven, the data should be available ...