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Updates December 4, 2014 1 min read

The Best of Both Worlds: Top Benefits and Scenarios for Hybrid Hadoop, from On-Premises to the Cloud

Historically, Hadoop has been a platform for big data that you either deploy on-premises with your own hardware or in the cloud and managed by a hosting vendor.

Updates November 19, 2014 2 min read

Azure HDInsight Adds Deeper Tooling Experience in Visual Studio

To allow developers in Visual Studio to more easily incorporate the benefits of “big data” with their custom applications, Microsoft is adding a deeper tooling experience for HDInsight in Visual Studio in the most recent version of the Azure SDK.

Updates November 13, 2014 1 min read

Preview Release of the SQL Server JDBC Driver

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of a community technology preview release of the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server! Download the preview driver today here.

Updates November 13, 2014 2 min read

AlwaysOn Availability Groups Now Support Internal Listeners on Azure Virtual Machines

We’re excited to announce that AlwaysOn Availability Groups now support Internal Listeners on Azure Virtual Machines.

Updates November 6, 2014 1 min read

Available Now: Preview Release of the SQL Server PHP Driver

Today we are pleased to announce the availability of a community technology preview release of the SQL Server Driver for PHP! Download the preview driver today here.

Updates November 5, 2014 4 min read

Microsoft announces major update to Azure SQL Database, adds free tier to Azure Machine Learning

This morning at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Summit, we celebrated SQL Server 2014’s strong momentum and introduced new services that further expand Microsoft’s big data platform.

Updates October 30, 2014 2 min read

The Ins and Outs of Azure Data Factory – Orchestration and Management of Diverse Data

Yesterday at TechEd Europe 2014, Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Data Factory.

Updates October 30, 2014 2 min read

The Ins and Outs of Azure Stream Analytics – Real-Time Event Processing

Yesterday at TechEd Europe 2014, Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Stream Analytics.

Updates October 29, 2014 3 min read

Microsoft Adds IoT Streaming Analytics, Data Production and Workflow Services to Azure

This blog post is authored by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of Machine Learning at Microsoft.

Updates October 17, 2014 2 min read

Expanding the Availability and Deployment of Hadoop Solutions on Microsoft Azure

Author: Shaun ConnollyVP Corporate Strategy – Hortonworks Data growth threatens to overwhelm existing systems and bring those systems to their knees.

Updates October 15, 2014 1 min read

Microsoft announces real-time analytics in Hadoop and new ML capabilities in Marketplace

This morning at Strata + Hadoop World, Microsoft announced the preview of Apache Storm clusters inside HDInsight as well as new machine learning capabilities in the Azure Marketplace.

Updates October 1, 2014 1 min read

SQL Server 2008 R2 SP3 and SQL Server 2008 SP4 are now available!

Microsoft is pleased to announce the release of SQL Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 3 and SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 4 .

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