Cloudera on Azure: resources and updates
Microsoft is continuously working to make Azure the best cloud platform for big data, including Apache Hadoop. In…
Topic: Cloud
Microsoft Azure gets top billing at premiere performing arts venue
Adelaide Festival Centre is South Australia’s principal performing arts venue and presenter of dance, theatre, music and exhibitions.…
Microsoft Research announces winners of the Open Source Challenge
In February, Microsoft Research announced an Open Source Challenge for students who want to solve interesting science or…
Red Hat on Azure: Resources and Updates
Ever since the partnership announcement between Red Hat and Microsoft came about, we’ve been creating and collating various…
How the Microsoft-Red Hat partnership is accelerating partner opportunities
Last week at the Red Hat North America Partner Conference (NAPC), Microsoft and Red Hat celebrated our growing partnership. From…
Open Source at Build 2016
Microsoft shared a number of developments and projects at Build 2016 that highlighted Microsoft Azure as the best…
Now available in preview: R Server inside Azure HDInsight
This week at Strata + Hadoop World, Microsoft announced the availability of R Server inside Azure HDInsight, Microsoft’s…
SocialDice: Revolutionizing talent recruitment in the the Middle East
For rapidly-growing, Middle Eastern small- to medium-sized businesses, hiring the best employees is a challenge. Both busy employers…
Try the Chef 'Super Human" lab: Automate an infrastructure
The Azure team has created “Super Human” hands-on-labs that let you try popular open source technologies in the…
Improving airports using open source tools on Microsoft Azure
One of the great understudied bottlenecks at airports is the time aircraft spend taxiing to and from the…
Now on GitHub: Windows Azure Pack Connector
Today the Microsoft IT team released the Windows Azure Pack Connector, a solution for Azure Pack, that provides…
Microsoft to acquire Xamarin, a leader in mobile app development
Yesterday, Microsoft announced an agreement to acquire Xamarin, a leading platform provider for mobile app development. In conjunction…