Here’s the current schedule of #MSFTOpenDay events:

Some of the topics to be covered by various speakers on these events include: Containers, App service on Linux, MySQL and Databases, and more. Participants will also get the chance to interact with some of our partners including Red Hat, Cloudera, SUSE, and Cxrus.
Please note that these events are by invitation only, so contact your local Microsoft Account Manager immediately if you would like to attend any of the events.
To follow the conversation online, check out the hashtag: #MSFTopenday on Twitter.

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Free Webinar 1: Democratizing Big Data with Microsoft Azure HDInsight

Date: 20th September 2017
Time: 11AM SGT (Singapore Time)
In this webinar, you will learn how you can use Microsoft Azure HDInsight to discover insight from new data sources such as machine logs, sensors, social media, weather and geospatial data. The presenters for this are Arun Kumar from Hortonworks and Wang Yi from Microsoft.
Register Here for Webinar 1.

Free Webinar 2: Using Spark in the Cloud with Hortonworks and Microsoft

Date: 10th October 2017
Time: 11AM SGT (Singapore Time)
In this webinar, you will learn about:

• The most common use cases for Apache Spark and how can you apply them to your business.
• How to make interactive queries over big data in Hadoop using BI tools How to use machine learning algorithms to predict outcomes in your analysis Today organizations produce more data than ever and are continuously looking for solutions that allow them to gain deep insight into their business and monetize the data collected from multiple sources.

Apache Spark helps you to improve your business insights by providing a highly-scalable and interactive environment for analyzing data. Microsoft has worked with Hortonworks to integrate Spark with Azure, making it available in the cloud. Azure HDInsight, Microsoft's managed Hadoop-as-a-service, eliminates the heavy lifting associated with deploying, managing and executing tasks on Hadoop and Spark, thus raising the bar on what it means to process big data in the cloud.
Register Here for Webinar 2.

Free Webinar 3: Top 5 Strategies in Retail Data Analytics

Date: 14th November 2017
Time: 8AM PT
It's an exciting time for retailers as technology is driving a major disruption in the market. Whether you are just beginning to build a retail data analytics program or you have been gaining advanced insights from your data for quite some time. In this webinar, you can join speakers Arun Kumar (Hortonworks) and Wang Yi (Microsoft) as we explore the trends, drivers and hurdles in retail data analytics.
Register Here for Webinar 3.

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In line with our commitment to openness and collaboration, we are running a number of Microsoft Open Days across Asia Pacific in May and June 2017. We will cover topics such as open source cloud infrastructures, highly available LAMP stacks, as well as open source databases and big data solutions on the cloud. The key speaker across all cities/countries (apart from South Korea) is Janakiram MSV, an analyst, advisor and an architect. Participants will also have the opportunity to engage with our Infrastructure and Data partners (eg RedHat SUSE, Cloudera, Hortonworks) who will be available to answer your questions.
Here’s the schedule for the Microsoft Open Days in Asia Pacific –

These events are by invitation only, so please contact your local Microsoft Account Manager immediately if you would like to attend any of the events.
To follow the conversation online, check out the hashtag: #MSFTopenday

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With the continued intersection of big data and the cloud, both architects and developers alike are asking: What's the best way to develop and run enterprise grade big data applications?
The MapR Converged Platform is the answer. It can easily be deployed and run in the Microsoft Azure cloud and provides several benefits:

• Design and deliver enterprise grade, production big data applications in the cloud
• Support hybrid environments and easily keep cloud and on-premises environments in sync
• Quickly and easily deploy a cloud-based converged big data platform
• Microsoft R Server on MapR
• Query MapR data using PolyBase (from SQL Server and Azure SQL-DW)

Learn more about these technologies and engage with the experts from MapR and Microsoft during the session.
Join us for this free live webinar!

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You may be up all night wondering how enterprise organizations deal with large data volumes and data varieties without significantly increasing costs. And perhaps your existing data architectures are not equipped to handle today's data? Join this webinar to learn how to optimize your data architecture and gain significant insights into cost savings with Hadoop on Azure.
The webinar will cover the following topics:

• Big data challenges and how cloud architecture can help you address them; and
• Advantages of HDP on Azure (storage, ETL, refining of new data types).

Don’t miss out!
Register Now.

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Microsoft’s Mission To Mars Workshop at FOSSAsia Summit 2017

This is a fun-filled, mission based code challenge, where participants can learn through hands-on. The workshop guides the participants in solving a series of mission and challenges.
Do come and learn to create a bot using an open source framework and tools through the Mission Mars Challenge workshop. Tools and resources are provided, badges of honor and prizes awaits the best teams!
You can register for tickets here.

Solve Mission #Mars#Challenge at #FOSSASIA Summit with #NodeJS#OpenSource#BotFrameworkEmulatorhttps://t.co/zkeabi6kUl@ddtru@Microsoftpic.twitter.com/v5Fv1qCw6v

FOSSASIA (@fossasia) March 9, 2017

Connect on Social Media!

Follow our Twitter account, @OpenForBizAPAC, for Tweets about the event and other open source topics. Also, you can track the hashtag #FOSSASIA for all about the summit.

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Microsoft HDInsight has been chosen by Forrester to be the leader in their Hadoop Cloud Wave report.
In this webinar, participants will learn how Hortonworks powers the Microsoft HDInsight platform and examples of how world leading corporations choose Microsoft HDInsight to run a variety of mission critical work loads.

Register Now

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Journey to the cloud with 38 @Azure regions worldwide @scottgu#msauignitepic.twitter.com/uBOT3bZGXT

Dona Sarkar (@donasarkar) February 14, 2017

It was particularly exciting for our team to see a massive Open Source track all throughout the event – a major first in the history of Microsoft Ignite.
“Audience interaction was great! We had a great mix of open source experts looking to take advantage of advanced services on Azure to accelerate their development and deployment, as well as a large number of beginners in open source looking at how they can simplify management of open source workloads for their organisations,” said Ken Thompson (Azure Technical Specialist, Open Source Software, Microsoft). Ken was one of the main presenters at the #MSAUIgnite event.

According to Ken, the former group (the experts) focused on the topics of Azure Container Service, Jenkins CI/CD Pipelines and Azure Container Registry, as well as advanced support for OSS languages/frameworks in our PaaS offerings like AppService. The latter group (beginners) valued learning more about the services Microsoft provides to simplify OSS management on Azure. These include things like Operations Management Suite for Log Analytics, Security, Backup & Automation, DevTest labs to accelerate Dev and Test cycles, and the native tooling and support we provide for troubleshooting Linux workloads, as well as simplifying tasks like password reset and boot diagnostics.
Some of the open source related topics covered at #MSAUIgnite include:

• Azure + Docker: Easy Open Source Shipping
• Hands-on: Docker, Azure and CI/CD Pipelines
• Azure Function Glue for Open Source
• Running Linux Workloads on Azure
• Managing Linux on Azure with OMS
• Running Docker on Azure

You can watch the replays and download the slide deck presentations using the links above or you can go to Channel 9’s collection of videos and other media related to Open Source from the Microsoft Ignite Australia 2017 event.
You can also watch videos from #MSAUIgnite 2017 Event via Microsoft Australia’s YouTube channel.
Here are some noteworthy Tweets regarding some of the open source sessions from #MSAUIgnite –

@NimbleStorageAU@Microsoft#msauignite Docker demo at full capacity Nimble + Docker on Microsoft pic.twitter.com/75COJUkVK1

vmineer (@vmineer) February 15, 2017

More photos from @mekenthompson ‘s #MSAUIgnite session from Day 1 – Running #Docker on #Azure || #OpenSource cc @ddtru@mjokeefe13pic.twitter.com/aGQXGIoyEi

Microsoft Openness (@OpenForBizAPAC) February 15, 2017

Dr Wu: What have you learnt at #MSAUIGNITE
Emmitt: We can fix it with a Docker instance
Frodo: #azure is the one cloud to rule them all. pic.twitter.com/nRgqqXwJKj

Lego Man Travels (@BAZMIC76) February 16, 2017

The #Docker features in #vs2017 are really cool. Makes it so easy to get started using containers. #msauignitepic.twitter.com/wfVuvYLxxV

Lars Klint (@larsklint) February 14, 2017

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Here’s the webinar description from the Hortonworks website:
“In the latest Forrester Wave report for Big Data Hadoop Cloud Solutions, Microsoft Azure came on top beating some very esteemed vendors. Learn how to complete your big data solution and join Microsoft and Hortonworks as we showcase Hortonworks DataFlow and how it complements Azure HDInsight enabling users to easily move their data to the cloud for production, disaster recovery or development uses.
“Powered by Apache NiFi, Kafka and Storm, HDF collects, curates, audits and delivers real-time data using a simple end-user interface unblocking customers from analysing their big data in Microsoft Azure.”
On the live webinar, the presenters will cover the following topics:

• How to ingest a variety of data sources from a selection of source systems using HDF.
• How to feed the data to HDInsight cluster on Azure.
• How to easily display and interrogate those data sources once they have been ingested.

Register Now

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Add the scalability and flexibility of the public cloud to your existing on-premises datacenter and applications. For customers using Red Hat Enterprise Linux on-premises and exploring hybrid cloud options, Microsoft Azure can help make it happen.
During this cloud training session, learn about the compute, storage, and networking options in Azure and how they map to your on-premises configurations. In addition, find out how the Red Hat and Azure hybrid cloud improves:

• Virtual machine sizing (SKUs: A, D, DS)
• Networking (virtual networks, load balancers, network security groups, VPN)
• Storage (standard, premium)
• Moving workloads
• Custom-built RHEL images
• On Demand RHEL images
• Running OpenShift, CloudForms, and Ansible in Azure

Register Now – Build your hybrid cloud with Red Hat and Microsoft (Free Webinar)

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