Announcing Azure Analysis Services preview
We are pleased to announce the public preview of Microsoft Azure Analysis Services, the latest addition to our data platform in the cloud.
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Azure Event Hubs Archive is now in public preview, providing efficient micro-batch processing
Of the many key scenarios for Event Hubs, are long term data archival and downstream micro-batch processing. Customers typically use compute (Event Processor Host/Event Receivers) or Stream Analytics jobs to perform these archival or batch processing tasks.
Application Insights: Track an Analytics query in a dashboard
Now you can continuously monitor any Analytics query computed from your telemetry in Visual Studio Application Insights, and display the results on an Azure shared dashboard.
Big data in the cloud – webinar with Cloudera, Zoomdata & Microsoft on June 28
On June 28th, Microsoft will be hosting a joint webinar with Cloudera & Zoomdata to walk you through using data and insights to drive strategic business value.
Apache Spark for Azure HDInsight now generally available
Today, we are pleased to announce that Apache Spark v1.6.1 for Azure HDInsight is generally available. With GA, we are revealing improvements to the availability, scalability, and productivity of our managed Spark service.
Azure Stream Analytics and Power BI general availability
Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of the integration between Azure Stream Analytics and Power BI.
A sample application for pulling data from SQL into an Azure Event Hub
A recent article and code sample I produced with Dinar Gainitdinov shows how to build a simple application to run some complex joins and queries then push the updated records to an Azure Event Hub.
WCF Monitoring with Application Insights
We released a new Application Insights Labs SDK specifically for monitoring WCF applications. Although Application Insights SDK for .NET Web Applications already supports HTTP-based WCF applications, it has never been optimized for WCF specifics.
Monitoring & Managing big data pipelines: ADF M&M App public release
We are glad to announce the public release of new Azure Data Factory (ADF) Monitoring & Management App.
Creating big data pipelines using Azure Data Lake and Azure Data Factory
This week, Microsoft announced the public preview of a new and expanded Azure Data Lake making big data processing and analytics simpler and more accessible.
Behind the scenes of Azure Data Lake: Bringing Microsoft’s big data experience to Hadoop
Microsoft just announced Azure Data Lake, a set of big data storage and analytics services including Azure HDInsight that enables developers, data scientists and analysts to perform all types of processing and analytics on data of any size or shape and across multiple platforms and
Introducing Azure Storage Data Movement Library Preview
We are pleased to announce a new open-sourced Azure Storage data movement library for .NET (DML for short).