Menghua Xiao articles

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Menghua Xiao
Menghua Xiao is a software engineer on the Azure DevOps Team. He created the Jenkins for Azure plugins for Azure Container Service (AKS) and Kubernetes Continuous Deploy.
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Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation 

Announced this week at Connect(); 2016, Microsoft has joined the Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member. As part of ongoing efforts to work closely with open source communities, Microsoft’s membership in the Linux Foundation will benefit customers and partners through increased collaboration and innovation within a diverse technology ecosystem.

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How-to: Install Cloudera Enterprise on Microsoft Azure (Part 2) 

Earlier this year, GoDataDriven deployed a large Cloudera Enterprise (CDH + Cloudera Manager) cluster on Microsoft Azure for one of the busiest and largest European airports. This two-part series, written by Alexander Bij and Tünde Alkemade,and republished with permission, includes information about use-case, design, and deployment.

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How-to: Install Cloudera Enterprise on Microsoft Azure (Part 1) 

Earlier this year, GoDataDriven deployed a large Cloudera Enterprise (CDH + Cloudera Manager) cluster on Microsoft Azure for one of the busiest and largest European airports. This two-part series, written by Alexander Bij and Tünde Alkemade, and republished with permission, includes information about use-case, design, and deployment.

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Running the MEAN stack on Microsoft Azure – Part II 

In the Part I of this blog post, we discussed why many customers are choosing the MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, and Node) stack as an efficient and powerful approach to building web applications. We also reviewed how to get started with Express, Angular and Node development on Azure.

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Objective Corporation chooses Azure for its open source-friendly cloud 

In 2014, Australia’s Objective Corporation wanted to expand its unique, high-security, content-collaboration service – Objective Connect – to customers around the world. The company selected Microsoft Azure because the cloud platform can provide support for the open source based service, as well as meet the required compliance and regulatory requirements in multiple countries.

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Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta 

From high-level strategy to deep product insights, you’ll hear about new technologies and explore real-world solutions to today’s challenges. Customize your schedule to go deep on the topics that matter most to you and your organization including: cloud infrastructure and management, big data, analytics, productivity, communications, operating systems, mobile devices, and more.

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DevOps on Azure: Resources and Updates 

With DevOps on Azure, you can accelerate your application delivery life cycle. Find out more about tools and services that are available for you and your organization. Whether you’re a developer working in a startup or an IT professional in a growing enterprise, your software applications likely include both Linux- and Windows-based components.

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Resources to get ready for WPC 2016 

We are less than three weeks away from the 2016 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference! To make the most of the five-day conference, the WPC team has compiled resources to help you plan for both your time on-site at the conference and off-site exploring Toronto.

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Harness the power of open source in the public cloud 

“Harness the power of open source in the public cloud” is a free webinar on demand presented by Jose Miguel Parrella, Open Source Product Manager from Microsoft. In this webinar, you will learn how organizations around the globe are harnessing the power of open source in Azure.

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OpenSistemas is the 2016 Open Source on Azure Partner of the Year 

Today we’re proud to name OpenSistemas the winner of the second annual Open Source on Azure Partner of the Year award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology.