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Usage for data analysis and storage drives NoSQL trends in various industries
Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Dannys. NoSQL also know as not only SQL (structured query language) is a tool used for data design and management of large quantity of distributed data. NoSQL database comprise a wide range of architecture and technologies designed to overcome problems of scalability and big data performance problems. NoSQL is very useful when organizations have to deal with large amount of unstructured and semi-structured data or remotely stored data or information on virtual servers. Some NoSQL implementations that were launched in the market include Google BigTable, MapReduce, Voldemort, SimpleDB, Apache Hadoop and ... Read More
Webinars for Sept 6-8: Power BI for Developers and What is new and exciting in Power BI
Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Last week, Greg Low’s Power Query webinar set a new high in terms of feedback and evaluations. Next week’s guest presenter Peter Myers may be able to top it! In addition to being a world class presenter, Peter Myers will be covering his favorite topic: BI Features for developers. Peter may not get through every point listed below during his session -- we looked into a longer duration to cover all the topics, but we heard your feedback that you prefer webinars be kept to one hour. Here's hoping that ... Read More
<div>Microsoft enabling customers to "go to" MARS-E</div>

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Matt Rathbun. We’re not referring to the planet (maybe one day?), but we are still excited to announce Microsoft Azure is the first hyper-scale cloud computing platform to enable Affordable Care Act (ACA) Administering Entities (AEs) to address the Minimum Acceptable Risk Standards for Exchanges (MARS-E) 2.0 security and privacy control requirements. Azure provides controls and capabilities that can be used by customers to help manage MARS-E 2.0 control requirements, reaffirming Microsoft’s continued commitment to enable healthcare industry customers to meet their security, legal, and regulatory needs. Microsoft Azure enables our customers who process healthcare ... Read More
A reproducibility horror story (and the heroes, knitr and checkpoint)

Feed: Planet big data Author: David Smith You download the data and complete your analysis with ample time to spare. Then, just before deadline, your collaborator lets you know that they've "fixed a data error". Now, you have to do your analysis all over again. This is the reproducibility horror story: R provides many tools to make reproducibility easy, and the creators of the above video, Ecoinformática - AEET, provide a useful list of tutorials and guides. Chief amongst these is using the knitr package for R: the R language automates the process of importing, preparing and analyzing the data, while ... Read More
Azure SQL Data Warehouse general availability expanding to 18 regions worldwide

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Prem Prakash. We are excited to announce the general availability of Azure SQL Data Warehouse in four additional regions—North Europe, Japan East, Brazil South, and Australia Southeast. These additional locations bring the product worldwide availability count to 18 regions – more than any other major cloud provider. SQL Data Warehouse is your go-to SQL-based view across data, offering a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud solution. It is highly elastic, enabling you to provision in minutes and scale up to 60 times larger in seconds. You can scale compute and storage independently, allowing you to range ... Read More
Azure Storage PowerShell v.1.7 – Hotfix to v1.4 breaking changes

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Michael Curd. Breaking changes were introduced in Azure PowerShell v1.4. These breaking changes are present in Azure PowerShell versions 1.4-1.6 and versions 2.0 and later. The following Azure Storage cmdlets were impacted: Get-AzureRmStorageAccountKey: Accessing keys New-AzureRmStorageAccountKey: Accessing keys New-AzureRmStorageAccount: Specifying account type and endpoints Get-AzureRmStorageAccount: Specifying account type and endpoints Set-AzureRmStorageAccount: Specifying account type and endpoints To minimize impact to cmdlets, we are releasing Azure PowerShell v1.7 - a hotfix that addresses all of the breaking changes with the exception of specifying the Endpoint properties for New-AzureRmStorageAccount, Get-AzureRmStorageAccount, and Set-AzureRmStorageAccount. This means no code change ... Read More
<div>Implementing Microsoft's hybrid cloud solution</div>

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rajeev Jain. Azure StorSimple is Microsoft’s hybrid cloud storage solution that leverages the cloud to solve one of the most pressing challenges of the enterprise customer: managing rapid data growth. In the last 12 months, rapid innovations like StorSimple Virtual Array (a software version of StorSimple solution) and Local Volumes (which allows storage administrators to decide which data needs to remain in the local tiers) have expanded the value of Azure StorSimple for customers and partners. Between Aug 2016 - Oct 2016, Microsoft is offering a series of educational sessions for IT Pros to get ... Read More
Free ebook supplement: Microsoft System Center DPM VMware Private Cloud Protection

Feed: Microsoft Press blog. Author: Kim Spilker. Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager has a new feature that provides protection for Virtual Machines running on the VMware platform. Learn about this feature in the following supplemental chapter for the free ebook Microsoft System Center Data Protection for the Hybrid Cloud. Download the ebook here. VMware Private Cloud Protection This chapter explains how Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) provides protection for Virtual Machines (VMs) running on the VMware platform. Most of the workflows are identical to how other data sources work within DPM, but there are some differences primarily ... Read More
Exploring HockeyApp data in Application Insights: introducing the Bridge App

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Evgeny Ternovsky. In a previous blog, we announced that soon, the data from any app in HockeyApp would be accessible through the Analytics, and Continuous Export features in Application Insights. This functionality is now available to you through the new HockeyApp Bridge App! With it, you will now be able to query raw HockeyApp data and gain insights from it, as well as export it to your own data store for warehousing purposes. In this blog post, we’ll see how to take advantage of this new feature as well as answer common questions about how ... Read More
Telco Customer Churn with R in SQL Server 2016

Feed: Planet big data Author: David Smith by Fang Zhou, Data Scientist at Microsoft and Wee Hyong Tok, Senior Data Scientist Manager at Microsoft In today’s fast-paced world, mobile phone customers have many choices and can easily switch between service providers. Improving customer attrition rates and enhancing a customer’s experience are valuable ways to reduce customer acquisition costs and maintain a high-quality service. Many industries, including mobile phone service providers, use churn models to predict which customers are most likely to leave, and to understand which factors cause customers to stop using their service. In this blog post, we sketch a solution to ... Read More
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