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Spark + AI Summit Europe – Developing from cloud to the edge 

Organizations around the world are gearing up for a future powered by data, cloud, and Artificial Intelligence. This week at Spark + AI Summit Europe, I talked about how Microsoft is committed to delivering cutting-edge innovations that help our customers navigate these technological and business shifts.

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Bring Your Own Keys for Apache Kafka on HDInsight 

One of the biggest security and compliance requirement for enterprise customers is to encrypt their data at rest using their own encryption key. This is even more critical in a post-GDPR world. Today, we’re announcing the public preview of Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) for data at rest in Apache Kafka on Azure HDInsight.

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Eight use cases for machine learning in insurance 

Insurance companies that sell life, health, and property and casualty insurance are using machine learning (ML) to drive improvements in customer service, fraud detection, and operational efficiency. For example, the Azure cloud is helping insurance brands save time and effort using machine vision to assess damage in accidents, identify anomalies in billing, and more.

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HDInsight Enterprise Security Package now generally available 

HDInsight team is excited to reveal general availability (GA) of Enterprise Security Package (ESP) for Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop and Interactive Query clusters in HDI 3.6. When enterprise customers share clusters between multiple employees, Hadoop admins must ensure those employees have the right set of accesses and permissions to perform big data operations.