This post is authored by Julie Strauss, Principal Group Program Manager in the Data Group at Microsoft. We are very excited to announce the upcoming* general availability of Azure Data Catalog, the latest addition to the big data and advancedRead More

This post is by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of the Data Group at Microsoft.

This week I’m joining thousands of people attending Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose to explore the technology and business of big data and data science. As part of our participation in the conference, we are announcing several important investments to continue delivering on our commitment to make big data processing and analytics simpler and more accessible:

Advanced analytics at scale with R Server for HDInsight and the latest version of Spark for HDInsight are now available in preview: Customers can leverage their existing R skills and reuse current code to run at scale. R Server for HDInsight offers popular scalable R algorithms and the ability to parallelize any existing R function. We are also releasing the latest version of Spark for HDInsight, which can deliver 7x performance over MapReduce for most analytics. These capabilities give our customers the ability to train and run advanced analytics and ML models on larger datasets, and much faster than previously possible in the cloud. Out-of-the-box application integration, providing easier access to popular big data apps: Customers can now discover and deploy popular big data applications with HDInsight…

This post is by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of the Data Group at Microsoft.

This week I’m joining thousands of people attending Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose to explore the technology and business of big data and data science. As part of our participation in the conference, we are announcing several important investments to continue delivering on our commitment to make big data processing and analytics simpler and more accessible:

Advanced analytics at scale with R Server for HDInsight and the latest version of Spark for HDInsight are now available in preview: Customers can leverage their existing R skills and reuse current code to run at scale. R Server for HDInsight offers popular scalable R algorithms and the ability to parallelize any existing R function. We are also releasing the latest version of Spark for HDInsight, which can deliver 7x performance over MapReduce for most analytics. These capabilities give our customers the ability to train and run advanced analytics and ML models on larger datasets, and much faster than previously possible in the cloud. Out-of-the-box application integration, providing easier access to popular big data apps: Customers can now discover and deploy popular big data applications with HDInsight…

This post is by Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President of the Data Group at Microsoft.

This week I’m joining thousands of people attending Strata + Hadoop World in San Jose to explore the technology and business of big data and data science. As part of our participation in the conference, we are announcing several important investments to continue delivering on our commitment to make big data processing and analytics simpler and more accessible:

Advanced analytics at scale with R Server for HDInsight and the latest version of Spark for HDInsight are now available in preview: Customers can leverage their existing R skills and reuse current code to run at scale. R Server for HDInsight offers popular scalable R algorithms and the ability to parallelize any existing R function. We are also releasing the latest version of Spark for HDInsight, which can deliver 7x performance over MapReduce for most analytics. These capabilities give our customers the ability to train and run advanced analytics and ML models on larger datasets, and much faster than previously possible in the cloud. Out-of-the-box application integration, providing easier access to popular big data apps: Customers can now discover and deploy popular big data applications with HDInsight…