Elevate your skills to the cloud with new Azure trainings 

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Forrester predicts that the global cloud market will accelerate faster in 2017, up from just $87 billion in 2015 to $146 billion in 2017, “as enterprises around the world look to the cloud to power their core business systems.” To ensure IT professionals are well equipped to meet this market demand, Microsoft launched new, free Read more

Now in Public Preview: SQL Server on Linux 

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At Connect(); 2016, Microsoft announced the public preview of the next release of SQL Server on Linux and Windows. SQL Server helps developers and organizations to build intelligent applications with industry-leading performance and security technologies using their preferred languages and environments. This release brings the power of SQL Server to both Windows – and for Read more

Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation 

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Announced this week at Connect(); 2016, Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member. As part of ongoing efforts to work closely with open source communities, Microsoft’s membership in the Linux Foundation will benefit customers and partners through increased collaboration and innovation within a diverse technology ecosystem. Microsoft’s commitment to working with open Read more

Free Webinar On-Demand: Azure Solutions – Open Source 

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Late in October 2016, Andrew Habgood (Director, Cloud Partners, Red Hat Asia Pacific) and I presented a free live webinar on Azure Solutions – Open Source. Now, the webinar is available on-demand. Register today and access the presentation and discussions. Register Now: Azure Solutions – Open Source Microsoft cloud is an open and flexible cloud platform for your favourite open-source Read more

How-to: Install Cloudera Enterprise on Microsoft Azure (Part 2) 

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Earlier this year, GoDataDriven deployed a large Cloudera Enterprise (CDH + Cloudera Manager) cluster on Microsoft Azure for one of the busiest and largest European airports. This two-part series, written by Alexander Bij and Tünde Alkemade,and republished with permission, includes information about use-case, design, and deployment. In the Part 1, we discussed some information about Read more

How-to: Install Cloudera Enterprise on Microsoft Azure (Part 1) 

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Earlier this year, GoDataDriven deployed a large Cloudera Enterprise (CDH + Cloudera Manager) cluster on Microsoft Azure for one of the busiest and largest European airports. This two-part series, written by Alexander Bij and Tünde Alkemade, and republished with permission, includes information about use-case, design, and deployment. Processing large amounts of unstructured data requires serious Read more

Running the MEAN stack on Microsoft Azure – Part II 

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In the Part I of this blog post, we discussed why many customers are choosing the MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node) stack as an efficient and powerful approach to building web applications. We also reviewed how to get started with Express, Angular and Node development on Azure. Today, in Part II, we’ll turn our Read more

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Running the MEAN stack on Microsoft Azure (Part I) 

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Many customers are choosing the MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node) stack as an efficient and powerful approach to building web applications. In this two-part blog, I’ll detail why and how to use Microsoft Azure to host a Linux-based MEAN stack, leveraging Azure’s enterprise features like high availability, scalability and fault tolerance to run web Read more

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Open Source, Linux, and Microsoft Azure – an Amazing Team 

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In recent years, much has been said about Microsoft’s evolution in the Linux and open source space. As Microsoft has continued to broaden and deepen its commitment to open source, there has been growing customer interest in how to bring together the best of these worlds, particularly in the cloud. With this in mind, every Read more

Bitnami makes deploying open source apps in the cloud easy 

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With more than one million apps deployed per month, Bitnami is changing how people install and manage server software, making it easier than ever for everyone to run their favorite apps and development frameworks. Bitnami does the heavy lifting and eliminates the complexity of installation and configuration, helping anyone, anywhere, to deploy secure and update-to-date Read more