Microsoft Open Source Blog

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Azure HDInsight 3.6, now generally available 

This week at the DataWorks Summit, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure HDInsight 3.6, backed by Microsoft’s enterprise-grade SLA. HDInsight 3.6 brings updates to various open source components in the Apache Hadoop and Spark ecosystem to the cloud, allowing customers to deploy them easily and run them reliably on an enterprise-grade platform. “HDInsight 3.

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Now available: open source Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 

This week Microsoft released the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit version 2.0 out of beta. The toolkit, previously known as CNTK, is a free, easy-to-use, open source, commercial-grade toolkit that trains deep learning algorithms to learn like the human brain.

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Highlights from FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit 2017 

In an unprecedented partnership, Microsoft and FOSSASIA (the largest open source technology advocate in Asia) worked together to showcase Microsoft’s commitment towards open source software (OSS) communities through the FOSSASIA Open Tech Summit 2017 event, as well as the satellite community events and influencer engagements.

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Develop big data applications with MapR on Microsoft Azure 

Microsoft and MapR have partnered to bring you the first of a series of joint webinars! This free webinar, Develop big data applications with MapR on Microsoft Azure, will be presented by Asit Parija (Solution Architect, MapR Technologies) and Ben Sadeghi (Big Data & Advanced Analytics Specialist, Microsoft SE Asia & Korea).

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Making a winning bet on open source project selection 

Selecting an open source project isn’t just about the project’s ability to meet your technical and functional requirements, there’s also very important non-functional aspects that you should consider. This is a strategic long term bet for your business, enabling competitive advantage.

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How to optimize your data architecture with Hadoop on Azure 

Microsoft and Hortonworks are collaborating to bring you a series of live webinars on Hadoop!  These are the first two webinars: Accelerating Big Data Collection for Azure Cloud (February 2017) and A Winning Cloud Strategy For Your Hadoop Environment (March 2017).

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Microsoft’s open source Project Olympus grows partner ecosystem 

Introduced in November 2016, Project Olympus is Microsoft’s next generation rack-level solution that is open sourced through Open Compute Project. Since inception Project Olympus has attracted a large group of partners from compute silicon providers to ODMs, OEMs and component manufacturers and is becoming the de facto open compute standard for cloud workloads.

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Get ready for FOSSASIA Summit 2017! 

Microsoft has worked with open source communities for a long time now and we enable open source on our platforms, as well as contribute to the communities we participate in. We’re excited about our momentum in working with open source communities and the scenarios we’re enabling for our mutual customers and partners.

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Microsoft Azure 시작하기 – LAMP 스택 설치하고 이용 하기 

0. Azure? Microsoft Azure는 AWS(Amazon web service)와 같은 클라우드 컴퓨팅 서비스입니다.어? 마이크로소프트도 클라우드 서비스가 있어? 네 있습니다. GA가 된지 올해로 7년째인 플랫폼입니다.클라우드 서비스를 이용하는 모든 시나리오는 AWS 뿐만아니라 Azure에서도 적용 가능합니다. Azure는 IaaS 환경도 어느정도 AWS와 견줄 수 있을 만큼 발전하였고 무엇보다 아래와 같이 다양하고 많은 PaaS와 SaaS를 가지고 있습니다.

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Azure CLI 2.0 now generally available 

This week Microsoft announced the general availability Azure CLI 2.0, including the vm, acs, storage and network commands. These commands provide a rich interface for a large array of use cases, from disk and extension management to container cluster creation.