Topic: Big Data

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From Blair Hanley Frank, IDG 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

“Microsoft has been aggressive in embracing open source technology on its Azure cloud platform”—Blair Hanley Frank, IDG

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Hortonworks Future of Data Roadshow 

  • By Frederic Aatz, Open Source Strategy Lead, Microsoft France. Focused on implementation of Microsoft’s open source strategy with communities, businesses, partners, and user organizations in France.

COME AND MEET US AT THE HORTONWORKS FUTURE OF DATA ROADSHOW SEPTEMBER 15, Paris Spend the day with…

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Microsoft Ignite in Atlanta 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

From high-level strategy to deep product insights, you’ll hear about new technologies and explore real-world solutions to today’s…

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

  • By Mark Hill, Mark Hill is the Vice President for Open Source Sales and Marketing at Microsoft and responsible for growing the Microsoft business around the open source ecosystem globally and helping customers and partners derive value from a combination of Microsoft and open source technologies.

Today we’re proud to name OpenSistemas the winner of the second annual Open Source on Azure Partner of…

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Now available in preview: R Server inside Azure HDInsight 

  • By Jose Miguel Parrella, José Miguel is an open source enthusiast and part of the Microsoft Azure team. For the last 10 years he has been developing enterprise-grade open source solutions for customers and partners in the Americas. He was a lead architect of Canaima 2.0 - the Venezuelan Linux distribution, a Debian Developer, published author and is a regular speaker in open source events across the world.

This week at Strata + Hadoop World, Microsoft announced the availability of R Server inside Azure HDInsight, Microsoft’s…

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How to bring data to life with open source Power BI visuals 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

When it comes to visuals, Power BI is open BI! The built-in visuals for the Power BI platform are…

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Making R the Enterprise Standard for Cross-Platform Analytics 

  • By Jose Miguel Parrella, José Miguel is an open source enthusiast and part of the Microsoft Azure team. For the last 10 years he has been developing enterprise-grade open source solutions for customers and partners in the Americas. He was a lead architect of Canaima 2.0 - the Venezuelan Linux distribution, a Debian Developer, published author and is a regular speaker in open source events across the world.

Last year Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics, the leading commercial provider of software and services for R, an open…