Announcing large disk sizes of up to 4 TB for Azure IaaS VMs
Azure increases the maximum size and performance of Azure Disks We are excited to announce an increase of maximum disk sizes for both Premium and Standard storage. This extends the maximum size of the...
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Announcing public preview of Apache Kafka on HDInsight with Azure Managed disks
HDInsight set a firm goal of helping enterprises build secure, robust, scalable open source streaming pipelines on Azure. To meet this goal, a few months ago we announced a limited preview of Managed...
View ArticleDemo: Real-Time Predictions with Microsoft R Server
At the R/Finance conference last month, I demonstrated how to operationalize models developed in Microsoft R Server as web services using the mrsdeploy package. Then, I used that deployed model to...
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How to reference a .NET Core library in WinForms – Or, .NET Standard...
I got an interesting email today. The author said "I have a problem consuming a .net core class library in a winforms project and can't seem to find a solution." This was interesting for a few reasons....
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Gartner names Microsoft Azure as a leader in the Cloud IaaS MQ
As customers bet more and more on Cloud to drive digital transformation within their organizations, we’re seeing tremendous usage of Azure. Recently, Forbes reported a study done by Cowen and Company...
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C++ Tutorial: Hello World
Welcome to the C++ Tutorial. In this first C++ tutorial, you will learn how to write (and run!) your first C++ program, “Hello, World!”. Along the way you will learn a little C++ history, see how to...
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Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.06.16
Greg Duncan, Martin Woodward and I (Willy) were chatting recently about all the great news posts that Greg pulls together for the Radio TFS podcast and what a shame it was that so many of them ended up...
View ArticleApplications of R at EARL San Francisco 2017
The Mango team held their first instance of the EARL conference series in San Francisco last month, and it was a fantastic showcase of real-world applications of R. This was a smaller version of the...
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Because it’s Friday: Dry Martini Specifications
"Standards are Serious Business" was once the tagline of ANSI, the American National Standards Institute, but this tongue-in-cheek standard (ANSI K100.1-1974, an update to ASA K100.1-1966) is anything...
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Get Solarized – Awesome command prompt colors for VS, VS Code, cmd,...
I was on a call with my co-worker Maria today and she commented on how nice my command prompt in Windows looked. I told it was "Solarized" and then our conference call fell apart as we collected all...
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Azure Marketplace Test Drive
Azure Marketplace provides a rich catalog of thousands of products and solutions from independent software vendors (ISVs) that have been certified and optimized to run on Azure. In addition to finding...
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Mesosphere DCOS, Azure, Docker, VMware and everything between – Architecture...
These days, I try to be involved in any Containers, DevOps, Automation, etc. related discussion. Part of my role is to consult my customers around how to architect their containers platform and...
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Azure Site Recovery now supports managed disks
Azure Site Recovery (ASR) now supports managed disks. This follows the announcement of Azure’s support for managed disks in February. With the integration of managed disks into ASR, you can attach...
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GDPR Questions? Azure has answers.
Microsoft is here to help Please have a look at our white paper How Microsoft Azure Can Help Organizations Become Compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation to gain an understanding of...
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Enable client side monitoring in Azure with Application Insights
With the Application Insights JavaScript SDK you can collect and investigate the performance and usage of your web page or app. Historically we have offered onboarding through manually adding a script...
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Managing updates for your Azure VM
In this blog post, I will talk about how to use Update Management solution to manage updates for your Azure VMs. Right from within your Azure VM you can quickly assess the status of available updates,...
View ArticleUsing sparklyr with Microsoft R Server
The sparklyr package (by RStudio) provides a high-level interface between R and Apache Spark. Among many other things, it allows you to filter and aggregate data in Spark using the dplyr syntax. In...
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How to distribute your existing Desktop Applications via Windows Store to...
Overview Windows 10 S is a specific configuration of Windows 10 Pro that offers a familiar, productive Windows experience that’s streamlined for security and performance. By exclusively using apps in...
View ArticleAzure Database for PostgreSQL team hosts Ask Me Anything session
The Azure Database for PostgreSQL team will host a special Ask Me Anything session on /r/Azure, Thursday, June 22, 2017 from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm Pacific Time. What's an AMA session? We'll have folks...
View ArticlePredictive maintenance using PySpark
Predictive maintenance is one of the most common machine learning use cases and with the latest advancements in information technology, the volume of stored data is growing faster in this domain than...
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