Announcing Spark for Azure HDInsight public preview
Lighting up interactive insights on big data By T.
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Datazen Publisher for Windows 7 Preview now available
We are pleased to announce the availability of Datazen Publisher for Windows 7 Preview. -
Preview the new JDBC 4.2 for SQL Server Driver
Today we are pleased to announce availability of the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the Microsoft JDBC 4. -
SQL Server 2016 launches new rapid preview model with CTP 2.1
From Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director, Data Platform In the SQL Server CTP 2 blog, T. -
SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.1 is available
Following the release of SQL Server 2016 CTP 2.0 last month, the SQL Server engineering team is excited to announce the immediate availability of CTP 2. -
Azure SQL Data Warehouse opens for Limited Public Preview
By Tiffany Wissner, Senior Director, Data Platform At the Build conference in April, we announced Azure SQL Data Warehouse, our new enterprise-class elastic data warehouse-as-a-service. -
MapR-based Hadoop Clusters Coming to the Azure Marketplace
Microsoft is committed to continuous innovation to make Azure the best cloud platform for running hyper-scale big data projects. -
Guest Blog: Delivering Transformational Outcomes with Hortonworks Data Platform 2.3
Guest post by Rohit Bakhshi, Product Manager at Hortonworks Inc. -
HP and Microsoft announce a new Superdome X Reference Configuration Guide for SQL Server 2014
HP recently announced (see HP Announcement) the certification of the powerful scale-up Superdome X server. -
Assess the health of SQL Server deployments in Azure VM using Microsoft Operations Management Suite
Do you want to assess the health of your SQL Server deployments on Azure Virtual machines? Do you want to ensure that you have an optimal SQL Server configuration? At Ignite 2015 we released a tool for this. -
SQL Server 2016 first public preview now available!
Three weeks ago at Microsoft Ignite, we announced SQL Server 2016, the next major release of Microsoft’s flagship database and analytics platform, as well key innovations in the release. -
Big data needs a big cloud
Brian Mitchell, Microsoft Senior Business Program Manager, took the stage at Ignite two weeks ago to discuss Planning Your Big Data Architecture on Azure.
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