Datacenter Expansion and Capacity Planning
People’s ears usually perk-up when they hear Windows Azure uses more server compute capacity than was used on the planet in 1999. We are excited and humbled by the number of new customers signing up...
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Driving Actionable Business Insight Using BI and SharePoint with Microsoft Dynamics CRM
View ArticleHadoop .Net HDFS File Access – Revisited
Provided with the Microsoft Distribution of Hadoop, in addition to the C library, a Managed C++ solution for HDFS file access is provided. This solution enables one to consume HDFS files from within a...
View ArticleThe Fantastic 12 of 2012: Behind the Scenes of Developing Scale on Demand...
We’ve reached the ninth episode of the Behind the Scenes series and in this episode Cihan Biyikoglu (@cihangirb), Senior Program Manager, Windows Azure SQL Database Team, pulls back the curtains on how...
View ArticleNow Available: New Services and Enhancements to Windows Azure
Today, we are ushering in the new era of Hybrid Cloud, bringing together the best of on-premises and cloud computing. Virtual Machines, Virtual Networking, and Web Sites are now available as new...
View ArticleSQL Reporting for Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud goes live
Microsoft’s announcement of its Windows Azure spring update included a lot of moving parts. One that didn’t get as much attention as it deserved was the the general availability of reporting services...
View ArticlePower BI Announcement
This morning, James Phillips, General Manager for Data Experiences announced important changes to the Power BI service at the Microsoft Official Blog.These exciting news include a free Power BI...
View ArticlePower BI on Office Mechanics
Yesterday we announced exciting news for Power BI.The Power BI new preview has been around since December 18th with attractive new features such as live dashboards, connectors, the Power BI Designer...
View Article5/17 Webinar: A look at the Common Data Service for Apps, Common Data Service...
Join Microsoft Program Managers, Mathew Roche and Charles Sterling in this demo heavy webinar for a tour of the Common Data Service for Apps, Common Data Service for Analytics and Power BI Insights Apps
View ArticleHelp Improve Power BI
We love hearing feedback from the Power BI community and today we have another quarterly survey to keep improving Power BI with your feedback.
View ArticleOn-premises data gateway May update is now available
We are excited to announce that we have released the May update for the On-premises data gateway. Here are some of the things that we would like to highlight with this month’s release Impala SSO…
View Article5/24 Webinar: Time intelligence for retail and wholesale industries with...
Power Bi Webinar, focusing on how time intelligence can be used for analysis in retail and wholesale industries
View Article5/29 Webinar: Building Spectacular Power BI Dashboards with Zebra BI visuals
See how many of the internal teams at Microsoft are using Zebra BI visuals to visualize typical business data such as YOY growth.
View ArticleSQL Server at the Red Hat Summit 2018
This blog post is authored byBob Ward, Principal Architect, Microsoft; Travis Wright, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft; and Jamie Reding, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft. A few weeks ago,...
View ArticleCloud data and AI services training roundup May 2018
To help you stay up to date on online training opportunities, were releasing a monthly list of the latest free Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) sessions in one convenient post. SQL Database Azure...
View ArticlePower BI Developer community May update
This blog post covers the latest updates for Power BI Developers community- Power BI Embedded and Custom Visuals.
View ArticleSubscribe others to email subscriptions in Power BI
Today, we’re pleased to announce we’ve added the ability to subscribe other users to e-mail subscriptions you setup for reports and dashboards in PowerBI.com. This highly requested feature allows Pro…
View ArticleMicrosoft releases the latest update of Analytics Platform System
Microsoft is pleased to announce that the Analytics Platform System (APS) appliance update 7 (AU7) is now generally available. APS is Microsofts scale-out Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) system...
View Article6/7 Webinar: Building Accessible Power BI Reports by Meagan Longoria
Learn how to build inclusive and accessible Power BI reports by one of the Power BI MVPs, Meagan Longoria
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