If you missed either of these two massive conferences, then this post will list some of the major announcements that have either been blogged, announced or made the news. (If I miss any let me know). Ignite is still going on at the moment so we will keep going to. If you are either and want to share your thoughts please use the comments!
- New Networking Capabilities for a Consistent, Connected and Hybrid Cloud
This week at Ignite, we announced several new Azure networking services and features that makes Azure more powerful than ever before. These capabilities will let you design your network topologies with more control and agility. ExpressRoute and ExpressRoute Premium Add-on Last year, we launched ExpressRoute which provides direct network connectivity to Azure, bypassing the Internet and providing better network performance, predictability, and privacy. We have… ... read more
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Developers and independent software vendors who often run hundreds — or even thousands — of separate databases for their customers now have a new option to manage them while keeping costs predictable. As Microsoft today announced during its Build developer conference keynote in San Francisco, its new Azure SQL Database elastic databases (yep, that’s the complete name)… Read More ...
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Last November, Microsoft said that it would bring some of the core features of its .NET platform — which has traditionally been Windows-only — to Linux and Mac. Today, at its Build developer conference, the company announced its first full preview of the .NET Core runtime for Linux and Mac OS X. In addition, Microsoft is making the release candidate of the full .NET framework .. read more
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What a wonderful time to be developer. I'm down here at the BUILD Conference in San Francisco and Microsoft has just launched Visual Studio Code - a code-optimized editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux and a new member of the Visual Studio Family. Visual Studio Code (I call it VSCode, myself) is a new free developer tool. It's a code editor, but a very smart… ...read more
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The Unity game engine is arguably the de facto standard for those dabbling with Oculus Rift development. But that doesn’t mean the Unity/Rift relationship is particularly exclusive — that’s hardly Unity’s style. Thus, Unity today announced incoming support for an entirely different headset platform: Microsoft’s crazy hologram-style Augmented Reality headset…Read More ...
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Microsoft’s HoloLens has been in development for a few years, and Microsoft’s Alex Kipman said on stage at Build today that during that time, the hardware has improved by a couple of orders of magnitude due to advances in mobile processing, sensor and computer power and affordability. Read More ...
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Microsoft just demonstrated one of the intriguing possibilities from its single platform/multiple form factors approach for Windows 10: the ability to use your phone as your desktop computer. In contrast to Apple’s “Continuity,” which aims to make moving between phone, tablet and desktop seamless, Microsoft’s Continuum instead has the phone you’re using adapt… Read More ...
- Microsoft’s New Browser Will Be Called Microsoft Edge
We knew that Internet Explorer was dead. We knew a successor was coming. We just didn’t know the official name, beyond the “Project Spartan” placeholder. Now we do. Read More ...
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Today, as expected, Microsoft announced that developers will be able to more easily bring their Android applications to Windows devices. Developers, Microsoft said, will be able to “reuse nearly all the Java and C++ code from an Android phone app to create apps for phones running Windows 10.” Developers will also be able to recycle their Objective-C apps for iOS using new tools… Read More ...
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Microsoft is launching the release candidate of Visual Studio 2015 today at its Build developer conference in San Francisco. As expected, this new release includes a number of bug fixes and UI polish, but more importantly, it now supports Universal Apps that can run on any Windows 10 device, including phones, tablets, PCs, Xbox and Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality project. Read More ...
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At its Build event in San Francisco, Microsoft just showed off its new add-in frameworks for Office that let developers build applications on top of the company’s productivity apps that will run everywhere Office does. Instead of siloing data off within its productivity suite, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that Microsoft wants to “move to a semantically rich graph of data… Read More ...
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Microsoft today announced a new service in its Azure database lineup during its Build developer conference keynote today. The Azure SQL Data Warehouse, which will go into public preview in June, is meant to give businesses access to an elastic petabyte-scale, data warehouse-as-a-service offering that can scale according to their needs. Read More ...
- Microsoft Announces Azure Data Lake, A Data Repository For Big Data Analytics
Microsoft today announced Azure Data Lake, a new data repository for big data analytics workloads, during its Build developer conference keynote. The idea behind Data Lake is — as the name implies — to give developers a single place to store all of their structured and semi-structured data in its native format without having to worry about storage and capacity limitations on… Read More ... read more
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Microsoft officials claim the company's combined Azure, Office 365, CRM Online and Enterprise Mobility Suite revenues will be at a $20 billion run rate in three years. ... read more
- Announcing Application Insights Public Preview
I am very excited with all the announcements being made at Microsoft BUILD conference today! As you might have read in Soma’s blog and Brian Harry’s blog, we are announcing Public Preview of Visual Studio Application Insights, which is an analytics solution for any app that brings togetherApplication Performance Management and Usage Analytics. Application Insights provides development teams with a comprehensive 360° view across their live… ... read more
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Outlook.com, Microsoft’s web-based email and calendaring client, is now open to third-party developers who want to build tools on top of it. Using the Outlook API, developers can build what Microsoft calls “contextual experiences” for Outlook.com. This is clearly part of Microsoft’s overall effort to make the data that its users create in its productivity apps… Read More ...read more
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In the industry, the concept of a data lake is relatively new. It’s as an enterprise wide repository of every type of data collected in a single place prior to any formal definition of requirements or schema. This allows every type of data to be kept without discrimination regardless of its size, structure, or how fast it is ingested. Organizations can then use Hadoop or… ... read more
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Today, we’re excited to announce Azure SDK 2.6 for .NET and Visual Studio 2015 RC. This post summarizes the updates and how they’ll improve your development experience for building applications in Azure. Azure SDK 2.6 for .NET [download for VS 2013 | VS 2012 | VS 2015 RC] Azure Resource Manager Tools: Create and edit Azure Resource Manager templates containing Virtual Machines, Network topologies and… ... read more
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We are thrilled to announce that Uber, Boomerang and PayPal are among the first partners to bring add-ins to our 400 million active Outlook.com users—leveraging the new unified consumer and commercial Outlook APIs announced earlier today at Build. The Outlook APIs create an open platform for developers to build contextual experiences for Outlook.com and Office 365 users that simplify everyday tasks, helping them get more… ... read more
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Developers get new ways to build with the Office platform, reach more people and extend their impact Office is the world’s most popular set of productivity tools for getting things done and is used by over 1.2 billion people around the world today. Developers play a critical role in the world of Office by building new experiences for users and customers that we could never… ... read more
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Azure SQL Database updates support SaaS and enterprise applications; customers see 406% return using Azure SQL Database. Today marks another milestone in our journey to make Azure the best platform for your data and applications. In the past year, we’ve introduced a myriad of new featuresand technologies to make Azure SQL Database more secure and reliable, to meet the needs of today’s mission-critical cloud… ... read more
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Microsoft’s really long Build developer keynote, condensed into 2 minuteshttp://ift.tt/1JaDGJ9 Welcoming Developers to Windows 10 Windows 10 on One Billion Devices Universal Windows Platform Innovation Windows 10 Welcomes All Developers and Their Code (including Android and iOS) Microsoft Edge (new browser replacement for IE)http://ift.tt/1PYVKd9 Continuum for Windows 10 for phones puts a PC in your pocket http://ift.tt/1DX9I6I Visual Studio… ... read more
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What has Microsoft been up to? As it turns out, quite a lot. The company’s more-than-three-hour keynote at its Build conference today covered a range of products: Office, Windows, Azure, and the unreleased HoloLens holographic headset and operating system. Read More ...
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It’s time for BUILD 2015, and the Azure Storage team has several exciting announcements to make. We hope that these new features will enable you to write more powerful applications with Azure Storage. This blog post provides an overview of new GA announcements, updates on preview programs, and insight into everything else we are working on. General Availability Announcements Premium Storage General Availability Azure Premium… ... read more
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In this episode, Jeremy Thake and Richard DiZerega talk to Rob Howard and Chakkaradeep Chandran about the announcements from Build 2015.http://ift.tt/1JVeKp3Download the podcast. Show notes Build 2015 Build 2015 Recorded sessionsJeremy and Rob’s kick off session Got questions or comments about the show? Join the O365 Dev Podcast on the Office 365 Technical Network. The podcast RSS has been submitted to… ... read more
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How old do you look? Old for your years? Young enough that you get carded every time you try to buy a beer? Now, how old do you look… to a computer that does nothing but guess ages? As something of an experiment, Microsoft’s machine learning team has built a site that takes any photo you throw at it and tries (with varying success) to… ... read more
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We are pleased to announce the release of new functionality in the .NET SDK that makes it easier to develop partition application data using Azure DocumentDB. During the preview of the DocumentDB service, we found that developers were implementing varied, yet similar, data access layers for partitioning data across collections, like using a lookup table of discrete values or timestamp ranges, or implementing consistent hashing over… ...read more
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Microsoft quietly launched a set of new machine-learning APIs in beta under the “Project Oxford” moniker yesterday. These new APIs allow developers to add face detection and recognition features to their apps, as well as speech recognition with the ability to understand the speaker’s intent. The project also features a vision API for automatically categorizing images and… Read More ... read more
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Microsoft announced this week a brand new service – the Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Azure SQL has provided PAAS based SQL services for a few years now, but if you wanted to run SQL analysis services, build cubes and do analytics you had to roll-out your own SQL Server on raw infrastructure as a service. Azure SQL is quite a good service in terms… ... read more
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Body: As Skype for Business bits are now available on MSDN, I started a deployment in my lab. There is no previous Lync deployed in this lab, so this will be a fresh install steps post. Skype for Business Setup First, load the setup using the <DVD drive>setupamd64setup.exe file I choose to check if there is any updates – even if I’m pretty sure… ... read more
- BUILD 2015 Wrap up
Time flies! As soon as BUILD conference 2015 started it’s over now. Martina and I arrived a week ago in California and spent some days in Silicon valley (working there…) and north of San Francisco before attending the conference. BUILD, the 5th This was our 4th BUILD. In total there were five BUILD conferences (after Microsoft paused and renamed the PDC and started with Windows… ... read more
- News from Build 2015 on Office 365 development
I had the honor to present with Rob Lefferts, general manager in Office Development. This session will give you a good idea of what we announced in the week. We also did a fun podcast too worth listening to with Rob Howard, Chaks Chandran and Richard DiZerega. http://ift.tt/1EOKE6G ... read more
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Ignite is going alive real soon less than 17hr as I write this blog. Those of you who are attending will be getting tons of rich content and meet with Exchange 2016 at ignite. What we should expect from the new release of Exchange 2016. As you might have already noticed from the IT evolving business, the push for cloud world is increasing each year… ... read more
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This week at //build, Microsoft made a number of exciting announcements regarding Office 365 development. If you haven’t had a chance, I highly encourage you to watch the foundational keynote that Jeremy Thake and Rob Lefferts delivered on the opening day…it was epic. In the months leading up to //build, I had the pleasure of working with Do.com on a solution to showcase many of… ... read more
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With the BUILD 2015 conference last week we got a load of announcements from Microsoft. Some entirely new information and some redundant information from previous announcements. In this post I’ll highlight the things I... The post Highlights from the recent announcements at BUILD 2015 appeared first on Tobias Zimmergren's thoughts on technology and business. ... read more
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I’m sitting here at the keynote sessions at Microsoft Ignite (#msIgnite) in Chicago, listening to a morning of announcements (and a dramatic intro to the event by rapper Common) – with a lot of anticipation around the details of SharePoint Server 2016 and the Office suite. On that note, back in mid-March Satya Nadella announced the opening of the Office 16 Public Pre-Release Program… ... read more
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One of the key features demonstrated today at MS Ignite was the integration of Power BI and Cortana. Using Power BI’s natural language question and answer features, Cortana will now provide voice integration into the Power BI experience. In addition, you’ll be able to interact with your corporate data right from within the Cortana experience including voice integration for querying your data. See below for… ... read more
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Satya says mobile first cloud first. Not sure how I feel about that yet. He did say devices don’t matter. Only experiences. Create more personal computing. Investing heavily in personal data. Building trust into the kernel? Can I build that into my mortgage? Super stoked for holographic computing. Most profound change is windows 10. WAS. Windows as a service. New capabilities for windows update. Not… ... read more
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Microsoft is readying new on-premises previews of Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016, which will be available later this week. ... read more
- Microsoft to add Windows Update for Business option for Windows 10 users
Microsoft is providing IT pros with more granular levels of control over how Windows 10 as a service will work. ... read more
- Modern productivity–Office news at Ignite
Today’s post was written by Julia White, general manager for the Office Marketing team. Today, at our first-ever Ignite Conference in Chicago, we announced new capabilities and solutions from across the company, all of which help IT Pros fuel innovation and transformation within their organizations. I was thrilled to join corporate vice president of Skype engineering Gurdeep Singh Pall on stage during today’s keynote to… ... read more
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Microsoft has always been big on the hybrid cloud, which is no surprise given its focus on enterprise customers. This week, however, it’s taking this idea even further with the announcement of the Microsoft Azure Stack. This new service extends Azure’s application development and deployment model to any data center, whether that’s an enterprise on-premise data center or that of… Read More ... read more
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Last month, we announced that the new Skype for Business client for Windows desktop and the online service in Office 365 have begun rolling out. Continuing the momentum, today at the Microsoft Ignite conference, we talked about modern meetings, which require that participants in any location can see, hear and collaborate within the meeting as easily as if everyone is sitting in the same room.… ... read more
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In October 2014, we introduced Office Sway to the world as a brand new app joining the Office family. It’s been inspiring to see the variety of ways people have used Sway in their educational, professional, and personal lives. People all over the world tell us how excited they are to quickly create and share their ideas with a variety of multimedia using Sway’s polished,… ...read more
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Today’s post was written by Jared Spataro, general manager for the Office marketing team. Over the last 12 months, we’ve transformed Office from a suite of desktop applications to a complete, cross-platform, cross-device solution for getting work done. We’ve expanded the Office footprint to iPad and Android tablets. We’ve upgraded Office experiences on the Mac, the iPhone and on the web. We’ve even added new… ... read more
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SharePoint on-premises SharePoint 2016 public release is expected in spring 2016 SharePoint 2016 beta coming later this year SharePoint 2013 on-premises will get a Delve and Office Graph update by end of this year New SharePoint topology model called “MinRole” providing Spcial Load, Web Frond End, Search, Application, Distributed Cache roles SharePoint hybridOffice Graph shows content from on-premises and cloud plattformUnified search: results from… ... read more
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Microsoft has announced the latest version of SQL Server on premise. SQL 2016 will arrive in preview this summer with some key new features. Always Encrypted Always encrypted means just that – the data is encrypted at rest and in transit. Encryption is transparent to the application so no changes are required at the application level. Stretching From On Premise to Azure In… ... read more
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Today at Ignite, Brad Anderson – CVP of Microsoft’s Cloud and Enterprise division – laid out the key attributes of what makes for an intelligent cloud in today’s mobile-first cloud-first world. An intelligent cloud platform needs to be trustworthy, flexible and integrated. Azure is a rapidly innovating platform that delivers on these core principles and in the last 12 months, we’re proud to have added… ... read more
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Today’s post was written by Paul Andrew, technical product manager for Datacenter and Networking on the Office 365 team. In March we announced Azure ExpressRoute connectivity to Office 365, which enables Office 365 customers to use Azure ExpressRoute to establish a private, managed connection to Office 365 for highly predictable performance and the reliability that comes with dedicated connectivity. A key part of delivering ExpressRoute… ... read more
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This week at Ignite 2015 in Chicago, Microsoft and NetApp will showcase how customers can simplify disaster recovery for Hyper-V workloads without investing in a secondary datacenter. Together, we will demo how Azure Site Recovery (ASR) can replicate and recover a SAN-based on-premises application to Azure compute with NetApp Private Storage (NPS) for Microsoft Azure. Enterprise customers can connect Azure compute resources to the NetApp Private Storage… ... read more
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Download All Sessions in SD Quality $feedUrl = 'http://ift.tt/1AExZhF' [Environment]::CurrentDirectory=(Get-Location -PSProvider FileSystem).ProviderPath function Get-Media { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [Object] $url = (New-Object System.Uri($i)), [Object] $title ) $u = New-Object System.Uri($url) $name = $title $extension = [System.IO.Path]::GetExtension($u.Segments[-1]) $fileName = $name + $extension $fileName if (Test-Path($fileName)) { Write-Host 'Skipping file, already downloaded' } else { Invoke-WebRequest $url -OutFile $fileName } } $feed=[xml](New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString($feedUrl) foreach($i in $feed.rss.channel.item)… ... read more
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Microsoft's Azure Stack combines elements of the Azure and Windows Server operating system platforms into a new offering for private cloud customers and hosting providers. ... read more
- SharePoint 2016 allows you to specify your desired server role when installed
While folks are enjoying the biggest Microsoft conference – Ignite with many news about new products and features coming out, I’m only keeping my eyes on the SharePoint 2016 and Office 365. Published by Dan Holme today the screenshot of SharePoint 2016 installation, I’ve been fairly surprised as to how it offers you the role ... read more
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Download All Sessions in SD Quality $feedUrl = 'http://ift.tt/1IMRHi3' [Environment]::CurrentDirectory=(Get-Location -PSProvider FileSystem).ProviderPath function Get-Media { [CmdletBinding()] param ( [Object] $url = (New-Object System.Uri($i)), [Object] $title ) $u = New-Object System.Uri($url) $name = $title $extension = [System.IO.Path]::GetExtension($u.Segments[-1]) $fileName = $name + $extension $fileName = $fileName -replace "’", '' $fileName = $fileName -replace "?", '' $fileName = $fileName -replace ":", '' $fileName = $fileName -replace '/',… ... read more
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This week at the BUILD conference in San Francisco Microsoft released the first preview of Windows 10 IoT (Internet of Things) for Raspberry Pi 2 (as well as other lovely devices like the Intel Galileo and MinnowBoard Max). First, as I mentioned in February the Raspberry Pi 2 runs the Windows 10 IoT version. That means there is no "shell" or Windows Explorer. It's not… ...read more
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Body: You may already know Sway; if not you can take a look at the announcement published earlier in October 2014http://ift.tt/1udimgy. To quickly give an idea of what is Sway, it is a new web application to give you a quickest way to create,edit and share content with others. Currently this is a public – meaning not organization targeted – service like OneDrive or… ... read more
- Getting started with the Office 365 Unified API
The Office 365 Unified API was recently launched at Build 2015. It uses Azure AD for authentication and has just one endpoint"graph.microsoft.com" which can be used to query for data from any service across Office 365.This is a very important thing according to me because in the earlier versions of this API we had to query a discovery service and get the URL of… ... read more
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Microsoft is revamping the Delve experience to include more data about our habits, our work and our teams. In the latest preview of an upcoming Delve App, Microsoft will display a dashboard about your work life. Already, the reaction has been interesting – one article questioned whether you really want to know in real time how hard you’re working, how many emails you’re averaging and… ... read more
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Well! the moment we had been waiting for the inaugural Microsoft Ignite conference in Chicago this week arrived today. Whilst the event was a sell-out with approx. 23,000 attendees, I had the pleasure of tuning into MSDN Channel 9 for the keynote on what was a UK bank holiday weekend! Prior to the keynote broadcast, […] ... read more
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SharePoint on-premises SharePoint 2016 public release is expected in spring 2016 SharePoint 2016 beta coming later this year SharePoint 2013 on-premises will get a Delve and Office Graph update by end of this year New SharePoint topology model called “MinRole” providing Spcial Load, Web Frond End, Search, Application, Distributed Cache roles SharePoint hybridOffice Graph shows content from on-premises and cloud plattformUnified search: results from… ... read more
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Microsoft has announced the latest version of SQL Server on premise. SQL 2016 will arrive in preview this summer with some key new features. Always Encrypted Always encrypted means just that – the data is encrypted at rest and in transit. Encryption is transparent to the application so no changes are required at the application level. Stretching From On Premise to Azure In… ... read more
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Yesterday at Microsoft’s Ignite conference, we demoed the first sneak peek of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. As you build more applications in the cloud and with the increase in cloud-born data, there is strong customer demand for a data warehouse solution in the cloud to manage large volumes of structured data and to process this data with relational processing for fast analytics. Customers also want… ... read more
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The GSX BlogMicrosoft kicked off yesterday in Chicago with over 23,000 IT experts and decision makers listening to Satya Nadella’s Keynote, delivering his strategy of “Mobile First, Cloud First”. The main routes for this year in terms of product announcements will be based on 3 big areas: • Personal computing • Productivity and business process • Intelligent Cloud To empower his words, Nadella invited Real… ... read more
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