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Feed: SQL Server Release Services. Author: SQL Server Engineering Team. We are happy to announce SQL Server vNext Management Pack CTP2 bits with new features are ready. Please install and use this public preview and send us your feedback (sqlmpsfeedback@microsoft.com)! Please download the public preview bits at: Microsoft System Center Management Pack (Community Technical Preview 2) for SQL Server vNext Please note that CTP1 bits are not upgradable to CTP2. If you previously installed CTP1, you need to uninstall it before installing this release. Here is a table that gives a high level overview of which features are available: Feature/Workflow CTP1 ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sam George. While the most successful enterprise IoT solutions include a strategy for operators to handle ongoing management of device collection in a simple and reliable manner, it can be a hurdle for companies getting started with IoT. To help with that challenge, we recently introduced device management capabilities in Azure IoT Hub. Today, we’ve added these device management features to the Azure IoT Suite remote monitoring preconfigured solution. The Azure IoT Suite simplifies deploying and orchestrating advanced services to give businesses a complete IoT solution from proof of concept to broader deployment. With new ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Feed. Author: itsing. Editor's Note: This blog post is an excerpt from the MapR Guide to Big Data in Healthcare. To read more, you can download it here.Healthcare costs are driving the demand for big data-driven healthcare applications. Technology decision-makers in healthcare systems cannot ignore the increased efficiencies, the attractive economics, and the rapid pace of innovation that can now be applied to delivering and paying for healthcare. Many are finding that new standards and incentives for the digitizing and sharing of healthcare data — along with improvements and decreasing costs in storage and parallel processing on commodity hardware — are causing a big data revolution ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Vincent Granville. Monday newsletter published by Data Science Central. Previous editions can be found here.  The contribution flagged with a + is our selection for the picture of the week. Featured Resources and Technical Contributions Timestamp Data Visualization by Matplotlib +  Dataviz: Food and health demographics in the USA  An Introduction to Clustering and different methods of clustering  How and Why: Decorrelate Time Series  Python vs R: 4 Implementations of Same Machine Learning Technique - Julia code now added Getting Started with GraphLab For Machine Learning in Python  Book: Data for Business Performance  Top ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Randall V Shane. In short, an ontology is the specification of a conceptualization. What does that mean from the perspective of the information sciences? Wikipedia's definition: "formal naming and definition of the types, properties, and interrelationships of the entities that really or fundamentally exist for a particular domain of discourse." This basically means, like all models, that it is a representation of what actually exists in reality. A statistical or mathematical model attempts to represent some behavior in terms of a statistical or mathematical formula. The equation: $$f(x) = (0.00826x^{3} - 0.211x^{2} + 0.740x ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Sri Srinivasan. Wow! Nearly twelve months into the availability of Microsoft’s cloud ERP service, Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Operations, and we’re seeing an unprecedented global adoption of cloud business applications by mid-sized and large organizations. Our new enterprise customers are increasingly choosing our cloud solutions, with four out of five selecting Dynamics 365. It’s interesting to see organizations shifting paradigms with respect to business applications, preferring shorter implementations, fewer customizations, repeatable industry or domain solutions, and continuous updates. Most noticeable is the shift from systems of record to systems of intelligence. ERP is becoming ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Amelia T. Humphrey. Artificial intelligence(AI) as we know it today isn’t up to what we’ve dreamed in science fiction movies and books of the 20th century—but it has come a long way in the last few years. Today, we’re able to accomplish many tasks that once were a far-off dream: facial recognition, driverless cars, and automated manufacturing, thanks to AI and machine learning. Now that we have the processing power to run neural networks, the pace of AI development is picking up, and many industries are benefitting from the new devices and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yousef Khalidi. Have you ever felt the need to diagnose a critical problem and you needed access to packet data from a virtual machine? What if you could capture the packet data from a virtual machine in just a few clicks? How about the ability to log flow data for Network Security Groups, visualize and interpret the information with a tooling platform of your choice? With Azure Network Watcher, you can now access a plethora of logging and diagnostic capabilities that empower you with insights to understand your network performance and health. These capabilities are ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Matt Rathbun. Microsoft continues to lead the charge in realizing the power and promise of the cloud for Government customers. We are pleased to announce that Azure Government has been granted authorization for 12 additional customer-facing services to our FedRAMP High P-ATO. We now offer 32 Infrastructure and Platform services to our customers in our Azure Government compliance boundary, all of which have been authorized for use with up to High Impact level data. Our coverage of services, and the rate at which we are increasing our scope, highlight our commitment to being the most ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Feed. Author: itsing. In the US, more money is spent on healthcare – about $3.2 trillion last year – than in any other discrete segment of the economy. By some estimates, that is about $600 billion more than should be spent, given the country’s size and wealth. These costs are pummeling consumers and their employers around the world. This year the global costs of employee healthcare benefits will rise more than 9%, according to recent research. In the US the increase will be 15%. Thus the pressure on healthcare providers to reduce costs is enormous. What’s more, ... Read More