Announcing the General Availability of Azure Machine Learning
This blog post is authored by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of Information Management & Machine Learning at Microsoft. We built Azure Machine Learning to democratize machine learning. We...
View ArticleMicrosoft Releases Azure HDInsight on Linux and Machine Learning GA at Strata...
Today at Strata + Hadoop World, Microsoft is announcing the public preview of Azure HDInsight running on Linux, the general availability of Storm on HDInsight, the general availability of Azure Machine...
View ArticleStrong Partner Momentum Around Microsoft Advanced Analytics
This post is authored by Garth Fort, General Manager for Enterprise Partners in the Cloud & Enterprise Marketing team at Microsoft.At Strata + Hadoop World yesterday, we announced the general...
View ArticleChannel 9 Implements The Azure Machine Learning Recommendations API
Reposted from Channel 9ML Blog Team
View ArticleNew Advanced Publish Options to Specify Object Types to Exclude or Not Drop
Our team has been hard at work these past few months, and we're thrilled to announce that the most frequently requested improvement to SQL Server Data Tools will soon be here. We plan to release an...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Bing prediction engine correctly predicts all six top Oscars 2015...
As reported by The Verge, the Microsoft Bing prediction engine – which has had great success in the past at predicting the World Cup, English soccer results and NFL games – successfully predicted the...
View ArticleFree Webinar: An Overview of the New Capabilities in Azure Machine Learning
We are pleased to bring you a free webinar where we will explore the numerous new capabilities we have introduced in the recently release GA version of Azure ML. This session will be full of examples...
View ArticleSQL Server Data Tools and Data-Tier Application Framework Update for February...
The SQL Server Data Tools team is pleased to announce an update for SQL Server Data Tools in Visual Studio and the Data-tier Application Framework (DACFX) is now available.Get it here:SQL Server Data...
View ArticleIoT to Help the Stanford Linear Accelerator Beam Keep Going for the Next 50...
Re-posted from the Microsoft News Center Over its 50-year history, research conducted at the SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) has led to the discovery of matter’s fundamental building blocks...
View ArticleMicrosoft Enhances Data Platform with Availability of Fully-Managed NoSQL and...
Guest post by Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director, Data PlatformAs part of our commitment to delivering a world-class data platform for our customers, I am excited to announce the general availability of...
View ArticleMachine Learning and Advanced Analytics for Non-Data Scientists
You might be a data scientist, but your boss probably is not.IT decision-makers need to have a good grasp of advanced analytics technologies like Hadoop and machine learning but the time and energy...
View ArticleSQL Automated Backup and Patching Support in Existing SQL Server Virtual...
In January, we released the SQL Automated Backup and SQL Automated Patching services for SQL Server Virtual Machines in Azure. These services automate the processes of backing up and patching your SQL...
View ArticleUpdated SQL Server PHP Driver Now Available
As part of SQL Server’s ongoing interoperability program, we are pleased to announce an updated Microsoft SQL Server driver for PHP. The new driver, which supports PHP 5.6, is now available!This...
View ArticleGet More Out of the Hybrid Cloud at Ignite
Hybrid cloud solutions offer the best of both worlds: you get the flexible power of the cloud combined with the tight control of localized datacenters. SQL Server offers tons of out-of-the-box hybrid...
View ArticleConvolutional Neural Nets in Net#
This blog post is authored by Alexey Kamenev, Software Engineer at Microsoft.After introducing Net# in the previous post, we continue with our overview of the language and examples of convolutional...
View ArticleEF6.1.3 RTM Available
Today we are pleased to announce the availability of EF6.1.3. This patch release contains only high priority bug fixes. What’s in EF6.1.3?EF6.1.3 just contain fixes to high priority issues that have...
View ArticleConnected Cows? Azure Machine Learning in an Unlikely Place
Repost from a session delivered by Joseph Sirosh at Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose in February. A surprising conversation about a farmer’s dilemma, a professor’s ingenuity and how the cloud,...
View ArticleEarly investigation into supporting the OData libraries in ASP.NET 5/MVC 6
Dear OData lovers,The OData team has started the investigation into supporting the OData .NET V4 libraries in ASP.NET 5/MVC 6. The work is currently going well and tracked by the following two GitHub...
View Article5 lucrative tech careers to pursue in 2015
Re-post from a recent article featured onLooking to make the biggest bucks in the fastest growing industry? There are two crystal clear - albeit unsurprising - commonalities among the top 10 highest...
View ArticleSQL Server 2014 is Certified for SAP Applications On-Premises and in the Cloud
As of March 11 2015, SAP has certified support for SAP NetWeaver-based applications on Microsoft SQL Server 2014. Now you can run even more of your Tier-1, mission-critical workloads on SQL Server....
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