Last November, Microsoft announced the next release of the public preview of SQL Server on Linux and Windows. With that release, users could develop applications with SQL Server on Linux, Windows, Docker, or macOS (via Docker) and then deploy to Linux, Windows, or Docker, on-premises or in the cloud. In the two weeks following the Read more
Microsoft and Hortonworks are collaborating on a series of live webinars. The series will feature four different webinars, with the first one to be held on 21 February 2017, 10AM (Singapore Time). The first of the series of webinars is on Accelerating Big Data Collection for Azure Cloud, presented by Sean Roberts (from Hortonworks) and Read more
Microsoft recently announced the availability of Clear Linux* OS for Intel Architecture in the Azure Marketplace. Clear Linux OS is a free, open source Linux distribution built from the ground up for cloud and data center environments and tuned to maximize the performance and value of Intel architecture. Microsoft Azure is the first public cloud Read more
Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OMS) is Microsoft’s cloud-based IT management solution that helps you manage and protect your on-premises and cloud infrastructure. Since OMS is implemented as a cloud-based service, you can have it up and running quickly with minimal investment in infrastructure services. New features are delivered automatically, saving you ongoing maintenance and upgrade Read more
Join Harold Wong (Technical Evangelist, Global ISV Developer Experience, Microsoft) and Scott Simmons (Technical Product Marketing Manager, Certified Cloud and Service Provider Program, Red Hat) on 7 February 2017 (12:30 pm AEDT / 9:30 am SGT / 8:30 am WIB) for a live webinar on how to build your hybrid cloud with Red Hat and Read more
HDInsight is Microsoft Azure’s managed Hadoop-as-a-service. It is the only fully-managed cloud Hadoop offering that provides optimized open source analytic clusters for Spark, Hive, MapReduce, HBase, Storm, Kafka, and R Server – all backed by a 99.9% SLA. Each of these big data technologies and ISV applications are easily deployable as managed clusters with enterprise-level Read more
Around the world in 2017, Microsoft is hosting a series of free, two-day technical trainings for IT professionals and developers, connecting them with experts who build and manage Microsoft cloud services, including Microsoft Azure. Sessions will deep-dive into the latest innovations covering a range of topics across Microsoft Azure and the hybrid platform, including security, Read more
Power your innovation and grow your business by uncovering hidden patterns and correlations in your data with the least ramp-up time using a metered hyperscale cloud computing platform—Microsoft Azure. Register today for this free webinar that aims to share you can run your big data and analytics workloads at cloud scale. Date: January 17, 2017 Read more
Four BizSpark Plus startups were interviewed by IT publication InfoQ France, following their participation at Microsoft Experiences conference last October. These startups have chosen Microsoft Azure for their technical architecture and to support their open source technologies. Discover their stories and their technological choices in the following articles (note: links are in French): Realytics.io: Hadoop, Read more
This week Microsoft released Microsoft R Server (MRS) version 9.0, built on top of the latest open source R engine. This release has several exciting new capabilities, best-of-breed machine learning algorithms, simplified operationalization of R models, and support for Spark 2.0, to name a few. “I am proud of the many MRS enhancements that our Read more
Forrester predicts that the global cloud market will accelerate faster in 2017, up from just $87 billion in 2015 to $146 billion in 2017, “as enterprises around the world look to the cloud to power their core business systems.” To ensure IT professionals are well equipped to meet this market demand, Microsoft launched new, free Read more
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