Tag: Azure

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Sandeep Raut. Today more than even, every business is focusing on collecting the data and applying analytics to be competitive. Big Data Analytics has passed the hype stage and has become the essential part of business plans. Data Lake is the latest buzzword for dumping every element of data you can find internally or externally. If you Google the term data lake, you will get more than 14 million results. With entry of Hadoop, everyone wants to dump their siloes of data warehouses, data marts and create data lake. The idea behind a data lake ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Justin Conway. Azure Service Bus .NET Standard client is generally available. With it comes support for .NET Core and the .NET framework. And as mentioned in an earlier post it also supports Mono/Xamarin for cross-platform application development. This is only the start of greater things to come. Here is a full list of the supported platforms. Ours will be .NET Standard version 1.3. Service Bus .NET Samples We have queue, topic, and session samples to get you going and we'll be adding more samples over time. For now try out a sample or two from ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Justin Conway. The Azure Service Bus team is extremely excited to announce general availability of our Java client library version 1.0.0. It allows customers to enjoy a solid Java experience with Azure Service Bus as it comes complete with native functionality. Want to use the native client to send scheduled messages? No problem. Want to use sessions on Standard and Premium plans to keep your messages in order? Sure thing. We had a number of organizations and individuals motivating us to get this out the door. Thank you to them for the patience and the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sunil Kamath. We’re excited to announce the public preview availability of Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL in India data centers (Central and West India). The availability of Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL services in India provides app developers the ability to choose from an even wider number of geographies, and deploy their favorite database on Azure, without the complexity of managing and administering the databases. The Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL, built using community edition of MySQL and PostgreSQL database offers built-in high availability, security and scaling on the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Pranav Rastogi. We are pleased to announce the availability of Imanis Data on Azure. Azure HDInsight is the industry leading fully-managed cloud Apache Hadoop & Spark offering, which allows customers to run reliable open source analytics with an industry-leading SLA. Imanis Data provides data management software that allows users to migrate data and add backup and restore functionality for their big data applications. This combined offering of Imanis Data on HDInsight and integration with Azure Blob Storage and Data Lake Store enables customers to migrate to cloud faster, protect critical data assets from application or ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Maliha Balala. Formation of mammatus clouds over the city of Regina Saskatchewan (source: Craig Lindsay on Wikimedia Commons) Download two free chapters from "Moving Hadoop to the Cloud" to learn more about harnessing the cloud for Hadoop clusters. When news broke that Amazon was acquiring Whole Foods, brick and mortar retailers panicked. Many industries are feeling pressure to undergo digital transformation for fear of being “Amazoned” (acquired by an online competitor). The International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts worldwide spending on digital transformation technologies will grow to more than $1.2 trillion in 2017 (an increase ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Bret Grinslade. Azure Analysis Services now supports the shared On-Premises Data Gateway which is used with Power BI, Flow, Logic Apps, and PowerApps. This has been a top ask in our user feedback. The shared gateway allows you to associate many services to one gateway or you can continue to use a dedicated gateway. With the shared gateway, managing connectivity is much easier. For example, you can configure multiple Azure Analysis Services servers to use the same gateway just by associating each one to the same gateway. To use the shared gateway, the first step ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Corey Sanders. As customers increase their deployed applications in Azure, we are seeing a growing interest in DevOps tooling on Azure. We also see customers looking to deploy applications across multiple environments, including hybrid and multi-cloud deployments while using the same tooling and enabling the same DevOps experiences. In order to meet these growing needs, I am excited to announce that we are greatly increasing our investment in Terraform, partnering closely with HashiCorp, a well-known voice in the DevOps and cloud infrastructure management space. Our partnership with HashiCorp goes back to early 2016, where we ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Kevin Schofield. There’s no escaping data’s role in the cloud, and so it’s crucial that we analyze the cloud’s impact on data modeling.  The fourth post in this series concluded with the observation that more and more managed data lakes are being implemented in the cloud. The second post in this series focused on the Internet of Things (IoT), the constellation of web-connected devices, vehicles, buildings and related sensors and software that are greatly facilitated by the cloud. But what exactly is “the cloud,” and what challenges and opportunities does it present ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database. Author: Bryce Merkl Sasaki, Aspiring Graphista. By This blog post was originally published on Medium by Michael Hunger and is used with permission. Creating a Neo4j graph database (and more) based on Game of Thrones (and A Song of Ice and Fire) data.As season 7 is progressing, interest around Game of Thrones data is flaring up again. There are plenty of very thorough data sources like the A Wiki of Ice and Fire and the Game of Thrones Wikia. But those are unfortunately not available as plain data APIs.Thanks to Joakim Skoog that changed at least ... Read More