Microsoft gets data fabulous at NYC event
0Microsoft gets data-fabulous at NYC event.
Although I'm down in Orlando, Florida for the SQL Sever Live! and Visual Studio Live! conferences, Microsoft is putting on its annual Connect(); developer event, up in Manhattan where I normally spend most of my time. And though I'm missing the live event itself, Microsoft was kind enough to brief my on a slew of data-related announcements the company is making at Connect() today. I cover them in detail here.
Brick by brickThe lead item is a real biggie: Microsoft is getting the Apache Spark religion, introducing a new cloud service in preview, called Azure Databricks. This is noteworthy for a number of reasons. First, the service was developed jointly by Microsoft and Databricks (the company whose founders are Spark's very creators), to deliver this Spark-based Big Data analytics service as a first-party Azure offering, and not a mere partner service on the Azure Marketplace. Second, the service works independently of Databricks' own cloud service for Spark and of Azure HDInsight, Microsoft's own Big Data as a Service platform, on which Spark also runs.
Also read: Spark comes to Azure HDInsight