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Microsoft announces major commitment to Apache Spark

Microsoft’s big data and analytics offerings announcement, excerpts of the announcement as below: Spark for Azure HDInsight General Availability, previously announced as public preview, Spark for Azure HDInsight generally available today, and introducing a fully managed Spark service from Hortonworks that has been hardened for the enterprise and made simpler for you to use. You […]

June 6, 2016 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
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Making R the Enterprise Standard for Cross-Platform Analytics, Both On-Premises and in the Cloud – Machine Learning

  By Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Data Group Less than a year ago we decided to acquire Revolution Analytics, the leading commercial provider of software and services for R, the world’s most widely used programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics. At the time, we committed to building R and Revolution’s technology […]

January 12, 2016 · Rahul Desai · No Comments
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