Three reasons to deploy Red Hat workloads to the Azure cloud 

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To compete in today’s business climate, IT departments are being asked to help their teams increase innovation while reducing costs, create environments to scale up and down flexibly, and give their organizations the tools necessary to meet increasingly global customer needs. To help accomplish these outcomes, many are moving their workloads to the cloud, while Read more

Learn about open source business opportunities at Microsoft Inspire 

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Microsoft Inspire kicks off today in Washington DC, where partners have an incredible opportunity to meet new partners and make connections that will support business growth for years to come. Open source solutions, particularly in the cloud, is a major growth opportunity for our partners. Microsoft’s investments in open source technologies and open standards enables Read more

Highlights from Microsoft Open Days 2017 across Asia Pacific 

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Microsoft’s Open Source team organized a series of events across Asia Pacific last month (May 2017), which were aimed at sharing their cloud vision and support for running open source solutions on Azure. These open source roadshows attracted 1,500 registrations and over 800 attendees. The topics covered across the events included a range of basic Read more

Join us for Microsoft Azure OpenDev 

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Azure OpenDev is the first-ever virtual event from Microsoft that showcases open source technologies in the cloud. Hosted by John Gossman, Lead Architect, Microsoft Azure, the event features industry thought leaders, including Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical and speakers from Docker, Pivotal, Red Hat, and Chef, as well as Microsoft teams dedicated to open source. Join Read more

Open source took center stage at Microsoft Build 2017 

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Microsoft supports the diverse needs of every organization and developer – from core infrastructure services to platform services and tools to software-as-a-service – for any language, across any platform. Last week at Build, Microsoft focused on how to empower Windows, iOS, Android, Mac and Linux developers to reach billions of new customers. Here’s a round-up Read more

Microsoft Open Days 2017 across Asia Pacific 

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Open source continues to gain momentum not only among startups and developers but also among enterprises. Many companies and organiations operate heterogeneous IT environments with traditional commercial, enterprise open source and community-based open source software working side-by-side. That’s why our team here at Microsoft has been expanding our platforms to include open source software, and Read more

Microsoft R Server 9.1 now available 

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During yesterday’s Data Amp event, Microsoft announced the new Microsoft R Server 9.1, which is available now. In addition to several advanced machine learning algorithms from Microsoft, R Server 9.1 introduces pre-trained neural network models for sentiment analysis and mage featurization and supports SparklyR, SparkETL, and SparkSQL. This release also includes the updated Microsoft R Client, which is now Read more

Now available: open source Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 

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This week Microsoft released the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit version 2.0 out of beta. The toolkit, previously known as CNTK, is a free, easy-to-use, open source, commercial-grade toolkit that trains deep learning algorithms to learn like the human brain. “Cognitive Toolkit is being used extensively by a wide variety of Microsoft products, by companies worldwide with Read more

Announcing the availability of N|Solid in the Azure Marketplace 

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As part of Microsoft’s vision for Node.js in the cloud, we’re excited to announce the availability of N|Solid in the Azure Marketplace. N|Solid is a 100% compatible Node.js runtime, that has been enhanced to enable increased control and visibility into the state of your production deployments. It does this by providing additional enterprise-grade capabilities such Read more

A winning cloud strategy for your Hadoop environment 

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Microsoft and Hortonworks are collaborating to bring you a series of live webinars on Hadoop!  The first one, Accelerating Big Data Collection for Azure Cloud, was held in February 2017. The second webinar is A Winning Cloud Strategy For Your Hadoop Environment, which will be held on 29 March 2017, 10AM SGT (Singapore Time). This Read more

Azure CLI 2.0 now generally available 

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This week Microsoft announced the general availability Azure CLI 2.0, including the vm, acs, storage and network commands. These commands provide a rich interface for a large array of use cases, from disk and extension management to container cluster creation. With this release, customers can now use these commands in production, with full support by Read more

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