Roger Jennings 06 February 2013

Testing the StreamInsight Service for Windows Azure

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Platform as a Service

Getting 'up to speed' with StreamInsight is easier if you take the time to run it and test it out. Roger Jennings expains how to be up and running in nine simple steps, once you've sorted out the prerequisites… Read more

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Platform as a Service

Roger Jennings 24 January 2013

StreamInsight Service for Windows Azure

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Platform as a Service

StreamInsight is an important technology for tracking streams of data from several sources to spot significant trends and react to them. It now runs as an Azure service as well. Roger Jennings describes how to install it and try it out.… Read more

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Platform as a Service

Roger Jennings 05 September 2012

Analyze Big Data with Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Preview Service Update 3

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Data Science

Hadoop and MapReduce have good prospects for adoption as a standard for big data analysis, especially since its adoption by Microsoft. It is ideal for Cloud usage since one can spin up nodes when required, pay only for storage and compute services whilst they are running. Roger Jennings descibes how to get it running on Azur… Read more

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Data Science

Roger Jennings 19 July 2012

Google Compute Engine: A Viable Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Competitor

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Infrastructure as a Service

Google Compute Engine (GCE) seems to be an extraordinary entry into the IaaS marketplace, but currently immature, and bare-bones. What makes the GCE interesting is that Google has demonstrated that it can scale up reliable networked operations.… Read more

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Infrastructure as a Service

Roger Jennings 15 May 2012

Free Private Data from Silos for Internal Use with Microsoft CodeName "Data Hub"

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Cloud Data

Both Amazon and Microsoft are hosting large datasets such as those used for healthcare. Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket now gives enterprises a way of publishing or buying large datasets. This principle is now being extended to allow organizations to provide their knowledge workers with a central Self-Service private DataMarket.… Read more

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Roger Jennings 03 April 2012

Analyze Years of Air Carrier Flight Arrival Delays in Minutes with the Windows Azure HPC Scheduler

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Data Science

If you are seeking to analyse very large sets of data, and need a highly parallel rapid way of doing it that scales to your requirements, then 'Cloud Numerics' from Microsoft may be the answer to your prayers… Read more

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Data Science

Roger Jennings 22 February 2012

Track Consumer Engagement and Sentiment with Microsoft Codename "Social Analytics"

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Software as a Service

It isn't at all easy to make sense of the deluge of information from social media sites, particularly to measure opinion or sentiment, yet it has become increasingly important for marketing to be able to do so. Microsoft are keen to be in the vanguard with their "Social Analytics" research project… Read more

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Software as a Service

Roger Jennings 18 January 2012

Upload Big Data to SQL Azure Federated Databases with BCP Automatically

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Cloud Data

As long as you use TSQL DDL to do it, creating a federated SQL Azure database is simple. What, then, of populating it with data? It is surprisingly straightforward to upload data from a BCP file via secure TDS in parallel multiple connections, even when things go slightly wrong… Read more

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Cloud Data

Roger Jennings 16 December 2011

Use OData to Execute RESTful CRUD Operations on Big Data in the Cloud

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Cloud Data

Microsoft's OData, the Open Data Protocol, allows consumers of data to get the metadata of data sources, to perform queries and, if necessary, to create, change or delete data items. It now provides the API for many of the available services on the internet, including the Open Government Data Initiativ… Read more

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Cloud Data

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