Azure is the Enterprise Cloud – highlights from Microsoft Ignite 2017
This is my favorite week of the year – spending five action packed days with customers, hearing what they are doing, and digging into their technology roadmaps. My discussions ranged from containers to...
View ArticleData Integrity in Azure SQL Database
Microsoft takes data integrity very seriously. While there are some traditional techniques used by DBAs in SQL Server to monitor data integrity (e.g. DBCC CHECKDB) and various methods to recover from...
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Business AI Tops the SQuAD Leader Board
Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) is a relatively new part of natural language processing (NLP) and is an important part of AI that researchers around the world are working on. The MRC research...
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Bing Maps Distance Matrix API Launches Today
At Microsoft Ignite we announced the Bing Maps Distance Matrix API solution, a service that provides travel time and distances for a set of origins and destinations. Today, we are happy to announce...
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Announcing new Azure VM images: SQL Server 2017 on Linux and Windows
We are excited to announce that SQL Server 2017 images on Linux and Windows are now available in the Azure Marketplace! Deploying SQL Server in Azure VMs combines the industry-leading performance and...
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TypeScript Turns 5
This past weekend marked 5 full years since we released TypeScript publicly! Just half a decade ago, we announced our project with the ambitious goal of “getting JavaScript development to scale.” At...
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Comparing assault death rates in the US to other advanced democracies
In an effort to provide context to the frequent mass shootings in the United States, Kieran Healy (Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University) created this updated chart comparing assault...
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Securing the Intelligent Edge
The Intelligent Edge brings the power of the cloud to mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices and demands security for trust. Azure IoT Edge is an implementation of the Intelligent Edge....
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Microsoft Azure allies with nearForm for Node.js Developer Migration and...
At Node.js Interactive 2017, starting tomorrow in Vancouver, BC, nearForm and Microsoft are announcing a new alliance to help customers migrate Node.js apps to Azure, and provide enterprise-grade...
View ArticleEmbed Stunning Visuals into your Apps with Power BI Embedded- Generally...
Today, Microsoft announced that Power BI Embedded is generally available; offering independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers a way to quickly add stunning visuals, reports, and dashboards into...
View ArticleAnnouncing CSV format support for Usage Details API for Enterprise Azure...
We are very pleased to announce the Public Preview of the CSV format support for the Azure Consumption and Charge Usage Detail API. In Aug 2017, we released the generally available version of the Azure...
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Achieve better savings with best-in-class cost management on Azure
Last week at Ignite, our customers and partners like UPS, HSBC, Ernest & Young, and more shared incredible stories of how they are transforming their IT and businesses with Azure – revamping...
View Article#OSSFridays Skype meetup is back!
Join us for Open Source Fridays meetup via Skype with the Azure Global Black belts (GBBs). This online meet-up style Skype session will cover various Open Source and Linux solutions in the Microsoft...
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Manage your Azure VM backups with Azure CLI 2.0 – Preview
We are excited to announce that you can now use Azure CLI to easily manage your Windows and Linux Azure VM backups using Azure Backup. With Azure Backup, you can backup Azure Windows and Linux VMs,...
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Microsoft announces next Azure OpenDev: October 25, 2017
I’m so excited to announce that the next episode of Azure OpenDev, our live technical series featuring open source community leaders, will be streaming live on October 25 at 9:00 AM (Pacific Time)....
View ArticleIntegrated Terminal Performance Improvements
Explore the performance improvements made to Visual Studio Code's integrated terminal renderer in version 1.17Read the full article
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Create Powerpoint presentations from R with the OfficeR package
For many of us data scientists, whatever the tools we use to conduct research or perform an analysis, our superiors are going to want the results as a Microsoft Office document. Most likely it's a Word...
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Announcing the general availability of Azure Application Insights SDK for...
At Microsoft, we are committed to enabling great experiences for developers building and running Node.js apps on Azure. Today, we are announcing the general availability of the Azure Application...
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Announcing the preview of Java support for Azure Functions
Serverless provides a great model for accelerating app development, but developers want to do it using the programming languages and development tools of their choice. Ever since we first released...
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Provision on-demand Spark clusters on Docker using Azure Batch’s...
Since its release 3 years ago, Apache Spark has soared in popularity amongst Big Data users, but is also increasingly common in the HPC space. However, spinning up a Spark cluster, on-demand, can often...
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