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Bring your own vocabulary to Microsoft Video Indexer
Self-service customization for speech recognition Video Indexer (VI) now supports industry and business specific customization for automatic speech recognition (ASR) through integration with the...
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Azure HDInsight Integration with Azure Log Analytics is now generally available
I am excited to announce the general availability of HDInsight Integration with Azure Log Analytics. Azure HDInsight is a fully managed cloud service for customers to do analytics at scale using the...
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Announcing Apache Kafka for Azure HDInsight general availability
Apache Kafka on Azure HDInsight was added last year as a preview service to help enterprises create real-time big data pipelines. Since then, large companies such as Toyota, Adobe, Bing Ads, and GE...
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Azure HDInsight announcements: Significant price reduction and amazing new...
Today, we are really happy to announce that we are reducing the prices for Azure HDInsight service and making several awesome capabilities generally available. Launched in 2013, Azure HDInsight is a...
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Enterprise Security Package preview for Azure HDInsight
Azure HDInsight is a fully-managed cloud service that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective to process massive amounts of data. Use the most popular open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark,...
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GDPR How-to: Get organized and implement the right processes
Achieving compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the new data privacy law from the European Union (EU), is not a one-time activity but is an ongoing process. When the GDPR goes...
View ArticleLast week in Azure: Azure France regions, cost savings, and more
Two new Azure regions are now in preview in France: France Central in Paris, and France South in Marseille. These regions are part of Azure’s global portfolio of announced regions in 42 locations...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Bias, by Kate Crawford
Bias is a major issue in machine learning. But can we develop a system to "un-bias" the results? In this keynote at NIPS 2017, Kate Crawford argues that treating this as a technical problem means...
View ArticleVMware virtualization on Azure
We have had tons of interest in our VMware virtualization on Azure offering. This includes questions about what we are offering and how we will provide an enterprise grade solution. Here are some of...
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Reference Architecture and automation for Financial Services web applications
Today we are pleased to announce the release of a new Azure Financial Services Regulated Workloads Blueprint. The Azure Security and Compliance Blueprint Program provides automated solutions and...
View ArticleParticipate in the Developer Economics Survey
The Developer Economics Q4 2017 survey is here in its 14th edition to shed light on the future of the software industry. Every year more than 40,000 developers around the world participate in this...
View ArticleAnnouncing the preview release of subscription level budgets via ARM APIs
Azure customers manage budgets at a workload level and need granular controls on monitoring the spend on cloud services. Workloads sometimes share a subscription and yet need to be budgeted for...
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ASA Police Data Challenge student visualization contest winners
The winners of the American Statistical Association Police Data Challenge have been announced. The ASA teamed up with the Police Data Initiative, which provides open data from local law enforcement...
View ArticleService Workers: Going beyond the page
We’re thrilled to announce that today’s Windows Insider build enables Service Workers by default in Microsoft Edge for the first time. This is an exciting milestone for us and for the web! These new...
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Application Engagement in Windows Timeline with User Activities
Great applications help users do great things — enabling a wide range of creative, productivity and entertainment scenarios. Returning to activities can be a challenge, especially when a person wants...
View ArticleWindows 10 SDK Preview Build 17061 now available
Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Windows 10 Insider Preview (Build 17061 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17061 contains bug fixes and under...
View ArticleC++17 Progress in VS 2017 15.5 and 15.6
VS 2017 15.5 is now available for production use, and 15.6 Preview 1 is also available. As usual, here are feature tables for the STL and compiler, plus a detailed list of STL improvements. (You can...
View ArticleNew connectors available in Azure Data Factory V2
We keep enriching the breadth of connectivity in Azure Data Factory to enable customers to ingest data from various data sources into Azure when building modern data warehouse solutions or data-driven...
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Azure HDInsight Performance Benchmarking: Interactive Query, Spark, and Presto
Fast SQL query processing at scale is often a key consideration for our customers. In this blog post we compare HDInsight Interactive Query, Spark, and Presto using the industry standard TPCDS...
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How Azure Security Center detects vulnerabilities using administrative tools
This blog post is authored by Dotan Patrich, Senior Software Engineer, Azure Security Center and by Yossi Weizman, Security Software Engineer Intern, Azure Security Center. Earlier this year, Rob Mead...
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