Tag: Microsoft

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Xavier Pouyat. Video Indexer is an Azure service designed to extract deep insights from video and audio files offline. This is to analyze a given media file already created in advance. However, for some use cases it's important to get the media insights from a live feed as quick as possible to unlock operational and other use cases pressed in time. For example, such rich metadata on a live stream could be used by content producers to automate TV production, like our example of EndemolShine Group, by journalists of a newsroom to search into live ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sunil Kamath. Azure Database for PostgreSQL provides a fully managed, enterprise-ready community PostgreSQL database as a service. The PostgreSQL community edition helps you easily migrate existing apps to the cloud or develop cloud-native applications, using languages and frameworks of your choice. The service offers industry leading innovations such as built-in high availability, backed with 99.99 percent SLA, without the need to set up replicas and enabling customers to save over two times the cost. The capability also allows customers to scale compute up or down in seconds, helping you easily adjust to changes in workload ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Atul Malaviya. Kubernetes is going from strength to strength as adoption across the industry continues to grow. But there are still plenty of customers coming to container orchestration for the first time while also building up their familiarity with Docker and containers in general. We see the need to help teams go from a container image, or just a git repo, and help get them to an app running in Kubernetes in as few steps as possible. It’s also important that we do this in a way that will allow them to customize afterward and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Kirthi Krishnamraju. Classroom labs in Azure Lab Services make it easy to set up labs by handling the creation and management of virtual machines and enabling the infrastructure to scale. Through our continuous enhancements to Azure Lab Services, we are proud share that the latest deployment now includes added support for class schedules. Schedules management is one of the key features requested by our customers. This feature helps teachers easily create, edit, and delete schedules for their classes. A teacher can set up a recurring or a one-time schedule and provide a start, end date, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Data is most valuable when it leads to informed action. Making it easier for people to get actionable insights is what Power BI is all about. Now, with Power BI Template Apps, users can immediately begin exploring, learning, and taking action on key data with off-the-shelf apps. Template Apps are integrated packages of pre-built Power BI dashboards and reports, configured to connect to specific data sources. With them, Microsoft partners can quickly access analytics for the apps and services they provide. Partners can also manage the Template Apps development ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Ryan Hart. Marketers have been using behavioral economics to understand and exploit the irrationality of consumers long before the Golden Age of Advertising. By employing simple marketing tactics such as “buy now, pay later,” inflated value pricing, or decoy alternatives, marketers have been able to effectively steer or in some cases, manipulate customers to buy products or services they may not need or otherwise want. However, we are seeing broad evidence that a behavioral science movement is beginning to flourish, with more and more educated professionals taking up customer experience roles in Behavioral Economics. This ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Bahram Banisadr. We have been incredibly excited to be a part of the rise of event-driven programming as a core building block for cloud application architecture. By making the following features generally available, we want to enable you to build more sophisticated, performant, and stable event-driven applications in Azure. We are proud to announce the general availability of the following set of features, previously in preview: Dead lettering Retry policies Storage Queues as a destination Hybrid Connections as a destination Manual Validation Handshake To take advantage of the GA status of the features, make sure ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Now in preview Anomaly detection using built-in machine learning models in Azure Stream Analytics Many customers use Azure Stream Analytics to continuously monitor massive amounts of fast-moving streams of data to detect issues that do not conform to expected patterns and prevent catastrophic losses. This in essence is anomaly detection. Built-in machine learning models for anomaly detection in Azure Stream Analytics significantly reduces the complexity and costs associated with building and training machine learning models. This feature is now available for public preview worldwide. See how to use simple SQL language to author ... Read More

Feed: SQL Server Release Services. Author: SQL Server Engineering Team. We are getting ready to update the SQL Server Management Packs. This includes the existing versioned MPs for 2008-2016, as well as the new version agnostic SQL Server MP for 2012 and up (for more info on the version agnostic MP, see here). Please install and use this public preview and send us your feedback (sqlmpsfeedback@microsoft.com)! We appreciate the time and effort you spend on these previews which make the final product so much better. Please download at: Microsoft System Center Management Packs (Community Technical Preview) for SQL Server 2008-2016 Microsoft System ... Read More

Feed: DB-Engines.com Blog. Author: Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann. Blog > Postby Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann, 19 February 2019Tags: Database models, DB-Engines Ranking, Multi-model DBMSWe recently changed the way we treat the multi-model aspect of database management systems and introduced a new option in the popularity rankings. This article explains the ideas behind. Today, the management, querying and efficient use of vast amounts of structured and unstructured data often requires storing that data with different specialised data models. That may be in tabular form (Relational DBMS), graphs (Graph DBMS), documents in JSON or XML form (Document Stores, XML DBMS), time-series data ... Read More