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In today's digest, you can say, the HDInsight - Hadoop ball reigns in the cloud. However, mobile developers have some good news. And a lot about machine learning.
Yes, and in February, I turned 5 years from the commercial launch of the platform.
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GA : Azure Machine Learning is a machine learning service. You can create models using Xbox and Bing algorithms, R / Python packages, or using your own R / Python code. Then this model is deployed on a web service that connects to any data source. And it all came out of the preview. What else is interesting - the emergence of
Machine Learning Marketplace makes it possible to monetize it.
More about the new very interesting changes .
GA : Apache Storm on Azure HDInsight - Apache Storm is a well-known OSS package that provides access to the functionality of handling a large number of events in real mode. Now its support has appeared in Visual Studio and Azure, which means that it works stably and if you have questions, you can contact technical support. And it is free.
GA : Azure HDInsight - cluster scaling - it was impossible to change the number of compute nodes after creating a cluster without recreating it. Now you can.
Preview : Azure HDInsight on Linux - HDInsight is Microsoft's implementation of Apache Hadoop in the cloud. As a service. That is, you can click and get a Hadoop cluster in a few minutes, calculate what you need, and delete it. In February, there was support for clusters on Linux.
Preview : Azure Mobile Engagement is a new service that works on the basis of data and provides real-time analytics on your users, segmentation, push notifications and more among all the devices connected to it. Very useful service for both developers and marketing.
Open Source News and other releases
New version of Powershell cmdlets . Changes in the main storage systems StorSimple and Azure Automation.
Useful content
New free book for those who want to quickly learn about what is AzureHow to use a virtual machine image among several subscriptions - a popular request from users, one of the solutions is described in the article
Automation for rapid deployment in Azure - the new DevOps utility Azure Task Manager, which will help you quickly deploy the service.
A series of Microsoft blog posts that tells you how to create a hybrid cloud imitation infrastructure with a virtual network, VPN, SharePoint, LOB application and Office 365.
How to migrate a local SQL Server database to a new version of SQL Azure (SQL Server as a service) - v12 is the newest update to SQL Azure Databases, which includes a large number of changes, especially in compatibility.
Azure Machine Learning as the development of data mining technologies - an excellent overview article from a Microsoft specialist about machine learning service
How Machine Learning Ate Microsoft - What Microsoft is doing with Machine Learning - interesting stuff about machine learning, which has become a big trend lately.
How to quickly start writing on R for Azure Machine LearningWindows 10 comes to RaspberryReal-time data flow analysis with Azure Stream AnalyticsReduce development and testing time with Azure Web Sites and Visual Studio OnlineSeventh annual Microsoft Research Summer School. This time about machine learning and intelligenceBig Data and Machine Learning in Microsoft Azure. Announcements from a colleague from the community
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