Category: AI + Machine Learning • 11 min read
What was once a distant promise is now manifesting—and not only through the type of apps that are possible, but how you can build them. With Azure, we’re meeting you where you are today—and paving the way to where you’re going. So let’s jump right into some of what you’ll learn over the next few days. Welcome to Build 2024!
Azure Sphere, Events, Internet of Things
Published • 4 min read
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.
#FuelMyAwesome is back to celebrate developers like you, and we want to hear about all the things that make you tick and keep you inspired. Whether that’s a lucky beanie or a cold brew, a delightful desk toy or a fun way to get fit, we want you to share it with us for a chance to win cool swag.
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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.
AI + Machine Learning, Azure Machine Learning
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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.
Analytics, Azure Synapse Analytics
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SQL Data Warehouse is happy to announce that Striim now fully supports SQL Data Warehouse as a target for Striim for Azure. Striim enables continuous non-intrusive performant ingestion of all your enterprise data from a variety of sources in real time.
Published • 16 min read
Keep current on what’s happening in Azure, including what’s now in preview, generally available, news & updates, and more.
AI + Machine Learning, Azure Machine Learning, Internet of Things
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In the past two years since PyTorch’s first release in October 2016, we’ve witnessed the rapid and organic adoption of the deep learning framework among academia, industry, and the AI community at large.
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Office 365 holds a wealth of information about how people work and how they interact and collaborate with each other, and this valuable asset enables intelligent applications to derive value and to optimize organizational productivity.
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You know what they say: “Time is money.” For many workloads in the capital markets space, time accuracy is money.
Analytics, Announcements, Azure HDInsight
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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.
