Tag: microsoft
Jan 8, 2019 |
If you’re looking to build a big data application in 2019, it would be foolish not to check out what Amazon Web Services can offer. Whether you’re looking for Hadoop-style processing, graph and time-series databases, or training a neural network, the company has what you need. Read more…
Dec 5, 2017 |
It’s looking like big data developers will get an early holiday present as work on Hadoop version 3.0 nears completion. And while Hadoop 3.0 brings compelling new features, including a 50% increase in capacity and upwards of a 4x improvement in scalability, more exciting stuff – like support for Docker, support for GPUs, and an S3-compatible storage API — Read more…
Jul 12, 2017 |
Microsoft today unveiled Microsoft Research AI, a new research and incubation hub that’s slated to take on some of artificial intelligence’s biggest challenges, including the creation of a general AI, the field’s Holy Grail. Read more…
Feb 10, 2016 |
My, what a week it was for business intelligence (BI) and analytic tools. First, industry darling Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA) lost half its market capitalization following earnings that disappointed Wall Street, which quickly punished competitors Qlik (NASDAQ: Read more…
Jan 25, 2016 |
Microsoft has released to the open source community a set of internal GPU-powered tools designed to boost the performance of artificial intelligence technology used for computer speech recognition.
In a blog post, Microsoft (NASDAQ: Read more…
Sep 4, 2015 |
The universe of data analytics categories continues to expand, and Microsoft said it is again buying into one of the newest: organizational analytics.
The office software giant announced Thursday (Sept. Read more…
Jul 13, 2015 |
Microsoft today unveiled a new suite of hosted analytic services named after Cortana, the software giant’s personal assistant software for smartphones. Meanwhile, the company is prepping to begin support for Apache Spark on Azure, its public cloud platform. Read more…
May 6, 2015 |
A big data project launched by the U.S. Commerce Department brings together major cloud analytics vendors and the Open Cloud Consortium to develop infrastructure needed to access the more than 20 terabytes of satellite weather data generated each day. Read more…
Apr 29, 2015 |
Microsoft today announced its Azure Data Lake, an HDFS-compatible data repository designed to store vast amounts of structured and unstructured data for customers who want to analyze or explore it later with their choice of tools. Read more…
Feb 26, 2015 |
Let’s face it: big data isn’t easy. If you’re building a big data application today, you’re up to your eyeballs in things like R and Java, MapReduce and Pig, and Storm and Kafka. Read more…
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