Azure Cognitive Services in containers is the smart way to go

That's the news from Microsoft, which announced recently that Azure Cognitive Services now supports containers. The marriage of AI and containers is a technology story, of course, but it's a potentially even bigger business story, one that affects where and how you can do business and gain competitive advantage. That's because they boost the agility and flexibility with which a business can roll out new tools to employees and new products and services to customers. With containers, a business can get software releases and changes out faster and more frequently, increasing its competitive advantage. Because containers abstract applications from their underlying operating systems and other services--like virtual machines abstracted from hardware--those applications can run anywhere: in the cloud, on a laptop, in a kiosk or in an intelligent Internet-of-Things (IoT) edge device in the field.