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Get high-performance scaling for your Azure database workloads with Hyperscale 

In today’s data-driven world, driving digital transformation increasingly depends on our ability to manage massive amounts of data and harness its potential. Developers who are building intelligent and immersive applications should not have to be constrained by resource limitations that ultimately impact their customers’ experience.

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Analytics in Azure remains unmatched with new innovations 

Digital disruption has created unlimited potential for companies to embrace data as a competitive advantage for their business. As a result, analytics continues to be a key priority for enterprises. When it comes to analytics, customers tell us that they need a solution that provides them with the best price, performance, security, and privacy, as well as a system that can easily deliver powerful insights across the organization. Azure has them covered.

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New Azure Machine Learning updates simplify and accelerate the ML lifecycle 

With the exponential rise of data, we are undergoing a technology transformation, as organizations realize the need for insights driven decisions. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies can help harness this data to drive real business outcomes across industries. Azure AI and Azure Machine Learning service are leading customers to the world of ubiquitous insights and enabling intelligent applications such as product recommendations in retail, load forecasting in energy production, image processing in healthcare to predictive maintenance in manufacturing and many more.

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A deep dive into what’s new with Azure Cognitive Services 

Microsoft Build 2019 marks an important milestone for the evolution of Azure Cognitive Services with the introduction of new services and capabilities for developers. Azure empowers developers to make reinforcement learning real for businesses with the launch of Personalizer.

AI-first content understanding, now across more types of content for even more use cases 

Today, data isn’t the barrier to innovation, usable data is. Real-world information is messy and carries valuable knowledge in ways that are not readily usable and require extensive time, resources, and data science expertise to process. With Knowledge Mining, it’s our mission to close the gap between data and knowledge.

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Azure.Source – Volume 81 

We’re really looking forward to Microsoft Build 2019, our premier event for developers happening next week, May 6-8 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. It’s a chance for developers to gain access to the latest updates and developments across Microsoft’s products and solutions, understand our strategy and product roadmaps, and learn about new technology and open source software in innovative ways.

LaLiga entertains millions with Azure-based conversational AI 

For LaLiga, keeping fans entertained and engaged is a top priority. And when it comes to fans, the Spanish football league has them in droves, with approximately 1.6 billion social media followers around the world. So any time it introduces a new feature, forum, or app for fans, instant global popularity is almost guaranteed. And while this is great news for LaLiga, it also poses technical challenges—nobody wants systems crashing or going unresponsive when millions of people are trying out a fun new app.

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Intelligent edge innovation across data, IoT, and mixed reality 

We are at an incredibly exciting technology inflection point. The virtually limitless computing power of the cloud, combined with increasingly connected and perceptive devices at the edge of the network, create possibilities we could only have dreamed of just a few years ago – possibilities made up of millions of connected devices, infinite data, and the ability to create truly immersive multi-sense, multidevice experiences.

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Making AI real for every developer and every organization 

AI is fueling the next wave of transformative innovations that will change the world. With Azure AI, our goal is to empower organizations to apply AI across the spectrum of their business to engage customers, empower employees, optimize operations and transform products. To make this a reality, we have three guiding investment principles.