Tag: Azure

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Today, we are excited to announce a new Power BI solution template - the Campaign/Brand Management template for Facebook! This solution template adds to the growing library of social analytics solution templates including the Campaign/Brand Management for Twitter and Advanced Search for Bing News solution templates. Powerful Yet Easy to Use This latest solution template provides powerful yet easy to understand analytics on any Facebook page. After defining one or many Facebook Pages to follow, you can quickly navigate posts and comments, identify key trends, understand user sentiment, and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Felipe Ayora. One of our key HPC partners, Bright Computing, has just announced the release of Bright Cluster Manager 8.0, the latest version of their flagship HPC cluster management solution. This new version gives customers the ability to extend an on-premises cluster into Azure for added capacity, or to easily build a cluster entirely in Azure. Martijn de Vries, CTO at Bright Computing, commented about this release: “We are pleased to offer this new integration to our customers and we are confident that the solution will be very popular with our user base. Cloud bursting ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Paul Nash, Group Product Manager, Compute Engine Cloud Spectator, an independent benchmarking and consulting agency, has released a new comparative benchmarking study that ranks Google Cloud #1 for price-performance and block storage performance against AWS, Microsoft Azure and IBM SoftLayer. In January 2017, Cloud Spectator tested the overall price-performance, VM performance and block storage performance of four major cloud service providers: Google Compute Engine, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and IBM SoftLayer. The result is a rare apples-to-apples comparison among major Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), whose distinct pricing models can make ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Asir Selvasingh. We released 1.1 of the Azure Management Libraries for Java. This release adds support for: Cosmos DB Azure Container Service and Registry Active Directory Graphhttps://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-java Getting started Add the following dependency fragment to your Maven POM file to use 1.1 version of the libraries: com.microsoft.azure azure 1.1.0 Create a Cosmos DB with DocumentDB API You can create a Cosmos DB account by using a define() … create() method chain.DocumentDBAccount documentDBAccount = azure.documentDBs().define("myDocumentDB") .withRegion(Region.US_EAST) .withNewResourceGroup(rgName) .withKind(DatabaseAccountKind.GLOBAL_DOCUMENT_DB) .withSessionConsistency() .withWriteReplication(Region.US_WEST) .withReadReplication(Region.US_CENTRAL) .create(); In addition, you can: Create Cosmos DB with DocumentDB API and configure for high ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Kay Unkroth. The third and final part of the article series “Building an Azure Analysis Services Model on Top of Azure Blob Storage” has been published on the Analysis Services team blog. It shows that an Azure Analysis Services S9 server can successfully ingest more than 1,000 source files in a 1-terabyte TPC-DS data set stored in Azure Blob Storage in less than 12 hours. Among other things, Part 3 demonstrates how to analyze the memory consumption of the model and how to optimize model size and processing times. This part also discusses the advantages ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John Deutscher. This month we are announcing the release of support for Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication in Azure Media Services. Customers of our REST API and .NET client libraries can now use AAD authentication to authorize requests. In addition, we are releasing a new management blade in the Azure Portal to simplify the usage of User and Service Principal authentication with AAD. With the release of this update to our REST API, we are now able to provide the same role-based access management (RBAC) as provided by the Azure Resource Management (ARM) service. By ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database. Author: Rachel Howard. By Dippy Aggarwal, PhD Candidate, University of Cincinnati | June 22, 2017  Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Dippy Aggarwal at GraphConnect San Francisco in October 2016.Presentation SummaryContainer orchestration for multiple containers across a fleet of machines has the potential to solve issues across the range of scaling, replication, fault tolerance and container communication.In this GraphConnect presentation, Dippy Aggarwal walks you through the basics of Docker containerization and why Docker alone isn’t enough to handle today’s challenges of scale and multi-cluster deployments. The three most popular container orchestration tools she examines include ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Kristi Lewandowski. What’s new with MemSQL? First, we announced the general availability of MemSQL Cloud, our managed service offering. Second, we are fulfilling our plans to be the world’s leading real-time data warehouse. Now Chief Information, Data, and Analytics officers can make a strategic choice for the future: Freedom to choose a managed service for fast execution and convenience Deploy on any public or private cloud Or mitigate expensive appliances with a scale-out on-premises solution Where did the idea for MemSQL Cloud come from? Cloud is a top priority for CIOs, which means they need more ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: David Smith. The Windows edition of the Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM), the all-in-one virtual machine image with a wide-collection of open-source and Microsoft data science tools, has been updated to the Windows Server 2016 platform. This update brings built-in support for Docker containers and GPU-based deep learning.  GPU-based Deep Learning. While prior editions of the DSVM could access GPU-based capabilities by installing additional components, everything is now configured and ready at launch. The DSVM now includes GPU-enabled builds of popular deep learning frameworks including CNTK, Tensorflow, and MXNET. It also includes Microsoft R Server 9.1, and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Power BI enables anyone to get insights from data in minutes. But, to unlock the full potential of Power BI, the data needs to be kept up-to-date. Scheduling dataset refreshes in Power BI allows you to do this, regardless of how your dashboards and reports are distributed and consumed. However, we’ve heard feedback that it can be difficult to manage the increasing number of datasets and refresh schedules as an organization scales up Power BI. Today, I am excited to announce the general availability of new APIs for managing ... Read More