Amazon Athena now supports the open-source distributed processing system Apache Spark to run fast analytics workloads. Data analysts and engineers can use Jupyter Notebook in Athena to perform data processing and programmatically interact with Spark applications. By Renato Losio
Apache Druid 25.0 Delivers Multi-Stage Query Engine and Kubernetes Task Management
Apache Druid is a high-performance real-time datastore and its latest release, version 25.0, provides many improvements and enhancements. The main new features are: the multi-stage query (MSQ) task engine used for SQL-based ingestion is now production ready; Kubernetes can be used to launch and manage tasks eliminating the need for middle managers… By Andrea Messetti
Article: Data Protection Methods for Federal Organizations and Beyond
The Federal Data Strategy describes a plan to “accelerate the use of data to deliver on mission, serve the public, and steward resources while protecting security, privacy, and confidentiality. This article covers what it is and how it can be applied to any organization. By Alex Tray
What’s new in Azure Data & AI: Empowering retailers to streamline operations and accelerate time to value
The new year brings opportunity for thoughtful reflection about the past year, both personally and professionally. 2022 was a year of firsts for me—first time having clam chowder at Pike Place Market as a local, first time going shopping for heels with my daughter, and first time delivering an Azure keynote at Inspire as a […]
General availability of Azure OpenAI Service expands access to large, advanced AI models with added enterprise benefits
Large language models are quickly becoming an essential platform for people to innovate, apply AI to solve big problems, and imagine what’s possible. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Azure OpenAI Service as part of Microsoft’s continued commitment to democratizing AI, and ongoing partnership with OpenAI. With Azure OpenAI Service now […]
General availability of Azure OpenAI Service expands access to large, advanced AI models with added enterprise benefits
Large language models are quickly becoming an essential platform for people to innovate, apply AI to solve big problems, and imagine what’s possible. Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Azure OpenAI Service as part of Microsoft’s continued commitment to democratizing AI, and ongoing partnership with OpenAI. With Azure OpenAI Service now […]
Microsoft named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Development and Infrastructure Platforms, 2022
Forrester recently published its report, The Forrester Wave™: Public Cloud Development and Infrastructure Platforms, Global, Q4 2022, placing Microsoft in the “Leaders” category. It’s an honor to be named as one of only two leaders in Forrester’s definitive report on the public cloud development and infrastructure platform market. The Forrester report recognized Microsoft for its long-term focus […]
Microsoft named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Insight Engines
How your organization can benefit, no matter the industry. As the amount of data being generated continues to grow at an exponential rate, it's becoming increasingly important for organizations to have a rich set of tools that can help them make sense of it all. That's where insight engines come in. These powerful solutions apply […]
Microsoft Innovation in RAN Analytics and Control
Currently, Microsoft is working on RAN Analytics and Control technologies for virtualized RAN running on Microsoft Edge platforms. Our goal is to empower any virtualized RAN solution provider and operators to realize the full potential of disaggregated and programmable networks. We aim to develop platform technologies that virtualized RAN vendors can leverage to gain analytics […]
How Twitter Automated Data Quality Check Process
Twitter engineering has recently shared a blog post on how they architected and developed a quality automation platform. Twitter digests and creates thousands of data sets for different data products and applications. The next natural step is to make sure about the quality of the data by adding automation on top of it. In this […]