Cognitive Services – Bing Local Business Search now available in public preview
We are excited to share that Bing Local Business Search API on Cognitive Services is now available in public preview. Bing Local Business Search API enables users to easily find local business...
View ArticleLeverage Azure Security Center to detect when compromised Linux machines attack
When an attacker compromises a machine, they typically have a goal in mind. Some attackers are looking for information residing on the victim’s machine or are looking for access to other machines on...
View ArticleStatic Data Masking for Azure SQL Database and SQL Server
The SQL Security team is pleased to share the public preview release of Static Data Masking. Static Data Masking is a data protection feature that helps users sanitize sensitive data in a copy of...
View ArticleThe importance of Azure Stack for DevOps
This blog post was co-authored by Steve Buchanan, Cloud & Datacenter MVP. DevOps focuses on aligning culture, people, processes, and technology. It is sometimes thought that the technology part...
View ArticleThe smart way to a smarter city: Three critical considerations
The concept of smart buildings is generating lots of excitement, but what’s the transformation to intelligent cities look like at ground level for those in charge of making it happen? This post is the...
View ArticleAzureR: R packages to control Azure services
by Hong Ooi, senior data scientist, Microsoft Azure This post is to announce a new family of packages we have developed as part of the CloudyR project for talking to Azure from R: AzureR. As...
View ArticleXAML Islands – A deep dive – Part 2
Welcome to the 2nd post of our Xaml Islands deep dive adventure! On the first blog post, we talked a little bit about the history of this amazing feature, how the Xaml Islands infrastructure works and...
View ArticleTips and tricks for migrating on-premises Hadoop infrastructure to Azure...
Today, we are excited to share our tips and tricks series on how to migrate on-premises Hadoop infrastructure to Microsoft Azure HDInsight. Every day, thousands of customers run their mission-critical...
View ArticleAzure Marketplace new offers – Volume 24
We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From October 1 to October 15, 2018, 31 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below:...
View ArticleAnnouncing ML.NET 0.7 (Machine Learning .NET)
We’re excited to announce today the release of ML.NET 0.7 – the latest release of the cross-platform and open source machine learning framework for .NET developers (ML.NET 0.1 was released at //Build...
View ArticlePython in Visual Studio Code – October 2018 Release
We are pleased to announce that the October 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the Marketplace, or install it...
View ArticleData Science with Python in Visual Studio Code
This post was written by Rong Lu, a Principal Program Manager working on Data Science tools for Visual Studio Code Today we’re very excited to announce the availability of Data Science features in the...
View ArticleT-mobile uses R for Customer Service AI
T-Mobile, the global telecommunication company, is using R in production to automatically classify text messages to customer service and route them to an agent that can help. The AI@T-mobile team used...
View ArticleTop Stories from the Microsoft DevOps Community – 2018.11.09
Woo! It’s Friday, so as you’re getting ready for the weekend, maybe you should get caught up on some of the news from around the Azure DevOps community. Source Control for Data Science – using Azure...
View ArticleBecause it’s Friday: Do the Robot
The engineers at Boston Dynamics are at it again. Here's one of the dog robots, dancing (and moonwalking!) to Uptown Funk (play with sound for best effect): I assume this robot was programmed directly,...
View ArticleWhen should you right click publish
Some people say ‘friends don’t let friends right click publish’ but is that true? If they mean that there are great benefits to setting up a CI/CD workflow, that’s true and we will talk more about...
View ArticleTerminus and FluentTerminal are the start of a world of 3rd party OSS console...
Folks have been trying to fix supercharge the console/command line on Windows since Day One. There's a ton of open source projects over the year that try to take over or improve on "conhost.exe" (the...
View ArticleStart asking your questions for the Azure Monitor AMA now!
The Azure Monitor team is hosting a special Ask Me Anything session on Twitter, Thursday, November 15, 2018 from 8:30 AM to 10:30 AM Pacific Time. You can tweet to @AzureMonitor or @AzureSupport with...
View ArticleAzure.Source – Volume 57
PASS Summit v.20 PASS Summit is the largest conference for technical professionals who leverage the Microsoft Data Platform. The 20th summit, which took place in Seattle last week, played host to a...
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