Microsoft unveils cloud data service, analytics platform, new database

Microsoft unveils cloud data service, analytics platform, new database

Microsoft's (MSFT) new Azure Intelligent Systems Service allows corporations to capture and manage machine data from various embedded devices and sensors, no matter the OS they use. The service aims to enable Web-connected embedded platforms in verticals like retail, health, producing, and transportation.IT outsourcing companies cognizant and Infosys area unit among Microsoft's service partners. Intel and ARM area unit already going after this market by via solutions that mix their central processing unit designs with connected code.Microsoft is additionally unveiling its Analytics Platform System, a hardware appliance (to be sold  by OEMs) that enables data handled by SQL Server's data storage solution (used to process analyze structured data) and also the Hadoop massive data framework (used for large unstructured datasets) to be integrated and conjointly queried.Satya Nadella calls the answer "big data in a very box." Teradata (TDC) and Informatica (INFA) can be among the companies in Microsoft's center of attention.SQL Server 2014 has also been launched. As secure, the newest update to Microsoft's information platform (produces $5B+year in sales) options in-memory capabilities that arguably make it a meaningful rival to SAP's popular Hana in-memory information.While going over the merchandise, Nadella declares Microsoft must create a "data culture" to thrive, in part by victimization its own merchandise. "Think of office as the canvas, or the surface area, or the staging from which you'll access the info."


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