Tag: Microsoft

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Robert R. Tucci. (Qubiter Logo) Check out the following paper unveiled last night in ArXiv: An Open-Source, Industrial-Strength Optimizing Compiler for Quantum Programs, by Robert S. Smith, Eric C. Peterson, Mark G. Skilbeck, Erik J. Davis, https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.13961 This is an exciting development for me since I have been a proponent and practitioner of the art of quantum compilers for a long time. The new "optimized quantum compiler" by Rigetti is a computer program that tackles the problem of searching for the "shortest" quantum circuit. Note, however, that it comes with some ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Shadow is one of the largest names in cloud gaming, and for good reason. Outfitted with a full Windows 10 desktop and support for every game that runs on Microsoft’s OS, it’s the closest thing we’ve found to local gaming in the cloud.  Microsoft’s yet-to-be-released cloud gaming service, Project xCloud, is competent in its own right, though it struggles when it comes to game support and performance. In this Shadow vs Project xCloud matchup, we’re going to compare the two in features, pricing, ease of use, coverage, game support, platform support and performance to see ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Lucas de Paula. Whether you like it or not, Microsoft Excel is still a big hit in the data analysis world. From small to big customers, we still see fit for daily routines such as filtering, generating plots, calculating items on ad-hoc analysis or even running statistical models. Whenever I talk to customers, there is always someone who will either ask: Can this be exported to excel or can we import data from excel?. Recently, other questions started to come up more often: Can we run Python within SAS? How do I allow my team to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: James Phillips. Today marks the official start of the 2020 release wave 1, kicking off the deployment of new applications and hundreds of new capabilities and updates across Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform.This release lands at an unprecedented time for business and society. We are providing support and resources for organizations on the frontlines of the COVID-19 outbreak and prioritizing the seamless business continuity for our Dynamics 365 and Power Platform customers. Our customer commitment includes allowances for uptake of the 2020 release wave 1, as well as the timely release of ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sam George. IoT is reaching mainstream adoption across businesses in all market segments. Our vision is to enable Azure to be the world’s computer, giving businesses real-time visibility into every aspect of their operations, assets, and products. Businesses are harnessing signals from IoT devices of all shapes and sizes, from the very smallest microcontroller units (MCUs) to very capable microprocessor units (MPUs). This presents a great opportunity for collaboration between semiconductor manufacturers with extensive expertise in MCUs/MPUs and Azure IoT, an industry leader in IoT. It has been nearly one year since we acquired Express ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Raman Kumar. Today, we're announcing the general availability for server-side encryption (SSE) with customer-managed keys (CMK) for Azure Managed Disks. Azure customers already benefit from SSE with platform-managed keys for Managed Disks enabled by default. SSE with CMK improves on platform-managed keys by giving you control of the encryption keys to meet your compliance need. Today, customers can also use Azure Disk Encryption, which leverages the Windows BitLocker feature and the Linux dm-crypt feature to encrypt Managed Disks with CMK within the guest virtual machine (VM). SSE with CMK improves on Azure Disk encryption by enabling ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Nagdev. [This article was first published on R – Hi! I am Nagdev, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. In last few years, AutoML or automated machine learning as become widely popular among data science community. Big tech giants like Google, Amazon and Microsoft have started offering AutoML tools. There is still a split among data scientists when it comes to AutoML. Some fear that it is going ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Yuemin Lu. Today marks the general availability of new Azure disk sizes, including 4, 8, and 16 GiB on both Premium and Standard SSDs, as well as bursting support on Azure Premium SSD Disks. To provide the best performance and cost balance for your production workloads, we are making significant improvements to our portfolio of Azure Premium SSD disks. With bursting, even the smallest Premium SSD disks (4 GiB) can now achieve up to 3,500 input/output operations per second (IOPS) and 170 MiB/second. If you have experienced jitters in disk IOs due to unpredictable load and spiky ... Read More

Feed: MariaDB Knowledge Base Article Feed. Author: . There are several ways to move data between SQL Server and MariaDB. Here we will discuss them and we will highlight some caveats. Moving Data Definition from SQL Server to MariaDB To copy an SQL Server data structures to MariaDB, one has to: Generate a CSV file from SQL Server data. Modify the syntax so that it works in MariaDB. Run the file in MariaDB. Variables That Affect DDL Statements DDL statements are affected by some server system variables. sql_mode determines the behavior of some SQL statements and expressions, including how strict ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . As the world grapples with COVID-19, it’s critical that public agencies working to stop the spread of the virus are equipped to give their communities timely and accurate information. Government agencies and non-profits are handling large amounts of data that are changing rapidly, and many of them are turning to Power BI to share data about COVID-19 with communities in easy-to-understand maps and dashboards. We’re providing a The Victorian Many organizations around the world use Power BI to share information with the general public. Here are To add your own ... Read More