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| Tune in to Microsoft Ignite: Live from Chicago |
Tune in May 4–8, 2015, to watch top industry leaders share their views on the latest cloud trends and solutions during live keynotes and select sessions. Find out what’s next in tech and see who’s fueling it. After the conference, you can access content from more than 700 sessions—including overviews, how-tos, deep dives, and more—on demand.
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| This cloud stands up to nearly any storm |
Azure helps AccuWeather respond to 10 billion requests for crucial weather data every day. Watch the video.  |
| Microsoft closes acquisition of Revolution Analytics |
Earlier this year we announced the plan to acquire Revolution Analytics—we’ve now closed the acquisition agreement, and together we’ll help unlock the power of the R language for advanced analytics on big data. R is the world’s most popular programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics, used by more than 2 million people worldwide. Revolution has made R enterprise-ready with speed and scalability for the largest data warehouses and Hadoop systems. To learn more, please read the announcement on the Machine Learning Blog by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of Information Management & Machine Learning at Microsoft.
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| Azure Stream Analytics generally available |
Azure Stream Analytics is a real-time stream processing engine in the cloud that helps uncover insights from devices, sensors, infrastructure, and applications. Developers describe their desired event stream processing and transformations in an SQL-like query language, and the system abstracts the complexities of the parallelization, distributed computing, and error handling. Temporal semantics are built in. New capabilities include support for automatically refreshing reference data, improved job diagnostics, and the ability to create new Azure Services for inputs and outputs within the context of your Stream Analytics job. These enhancements help you achieve a lower cost real-time streaming processing solution in the cloud.
Azure Premium Storage is a solid-state drive (SSD)–based storage offering designed to support I/O-intensive workloads. With Premium Storage, you can add up to 32 TB of persistent storage per virtual machine (VM), with more than 50,000 IOPS per VM with extremely low latencies for read operations. Premium Storage is currently available for use in the West US, East US 2, West Europe, Southeast Asia, and Japan West regions. With general availability, Premium Storage will now carry a service-level agreement (SLA) for 99.9 percent availability.
If you’re an Azure customer with an Enterprise Agreement (EA) Indirect Commercial, EA for Government, or Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) subscription, you can now purchase applications and services fromAzure Marketplace. Within a single, unified portal, you can easily find and deploy more than 3,000 offerings—all fully integrated into the Azure platform—with just a few clicks. Visit Azure Marketplace and learn how you can enhance your productivity on Azure by simplifying application development and software deployment.
In today’s mobile-first, cloud-first world, companies are using apps to better engage their customers, partners, and employees from virtually anywhere, on nearly any device. They rely on developers to quickly build those apps for connecting to popular services and on-premises systems, plus autoscaling as the business needs. Azure App Service is a unique new service that helps developers deliver cross-platform, cloud-connected apps faster than ever before. It allows developers to more easily build employee, partner, and customer-facing apps for any platform or device. All for one low price, this solution integrates Azure Websites, Mobile Services, and BizTalk Services into a single service—with a common app-hosting, runtime, and extensibility mode—for simplified integration with popular consumer and commercial services, plus on-premises systems. Watch the video announcement and create your app with App Service today.
Azure Friday’s Scott Hanselman learns all about Azure App Service in these videos on Mobile Apps, Web Apps,API Apps, and Logic Apps.
Firms that leverage cloud computing to build their next app can maximize profits by employing time as a competitive weapon. As the world becomes increasingly digital, accelerating your app development and innovation can be key in getting to market faster and in iterating more efficiently once you’re there. Join cloud thought leader Joe Weinman for an on-demand webinar on the technical and business benefits of saving time with the cloud.
Learn about Azure Key Vault, a new technology within Azure for storing sensitive keys and secrets, which you can then programmatically retrieve from your applications—all without allowing access to anyone who shouldn't have it.
You may also be interested in these Cloud Cover episodes, the first two of a five-part series focusing on big data.
Big data: Find out what big data is and how it’s used. Apache Hive queries: Discover how you can use Hive queries with Azure HDInsight.
Check out on-demand and upcoming live webinars from Microsoft experts on topics such as Apache Hadoop in the cloud, building predictive models, and using Azure Machine Learning. Be sure to bookmark this page to check for future webinars.
If you’re struggling to get your data into tables and columns, be sure to watch this free and informative training course. Learn about the many Azure storage options beyond relational data. Watch here.
In this episode, learn how to do some disaster recovery (DR) for your key systems using Azure Site Recovery. In the past, you needed an implementation of System Center to leverage this capability, but that’s no longer the case. Find out how to help protect your investments using the built-in Hyper-V replication technology. Watch now.
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