Microsoft Announces Azure Databricks Powered by Apache® Spark, New AI, IoT and Machine
Learning Tools for Developers
New tools to help increase developer productivity and simplify app
development for intelligent cloud and edge, across devices,
platforms
or data sources.
Wednesday at Connect(); 2017, Microsoft Corp.'s annual event for professional developers, Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie announced new Microsoft
data platform technologies and cross-platform developer tools. Guthrie
outlined the company's vision and shared what's next for developers
across a broad range of Microsoft and open source technologies, and how Microsoft
is helping them get more done across apps or platforms. He also touched
on key application scenarios and ways developers can use built-in
artificial
intelligence (AI) to support continuous innovation and continuous
deployment of today's intelligent applications.
"With today's intelligent cloud, emerging technologies like AI have
the potential to change every facet of how we interact with the world,"
Guthrie said. "Developers are in the forefront of shaping that
potential. Today at Connect(); we're announcing new tools and services
that help developers build applications and services for the AI-driven
future, using the platforms, languages and collaboration tools they
already know and love."
Across devs, apps, data, platforms
Microsoft is
continuing its commitment to delivering open technologies and
contributing to and partnering with the open source community. New tools
and partnerships are designed to help developers build intelligent,
enterprise-ready and cloud-scale apps — regardless of their platform,
and to give them the peace of mind with the built-in security,
performance, compliance features, support and SLAs available in Azure.
Azure Databricks
- Designed in collaboration with the founders of Apache Spark, the
preview of Azure Databricks is a fast, easy and collaborative Apache
Spark-based analytics platform that delivers one-click setup,
streamlined workflows and an interactive workspace. Native integration
with Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Storage, Azure Cosmos
DB, Azure Active Directory and Power BI simplifies the creation of
modern data warehouses that enable organizations to provide self-service
analytics and machine learning over all data with enterprise-grade
performance and governance.
Microsoft Joins MariaDB Foundation
- Microsoft joins MariaDB Foundation
as a platinum member and announces the upcoming preview of Azure
Database for MariaDB for a fully managed MariaDB service in the cloud.
Azure Cosmos DB with Apache Cassandra API
- The preview expands on the multimodel capabilities of Azure Cosmos
DB to offer Cassandra as a service over turnkey global distribution,
multiple consistency levels and industry-leading SLAs.
GitHub Roadmap for Git Virtual File Systems (GVFS)
- Microsoft and GitHub will further their open source partnership to extend GVFS support to GitHub. GVFS is an open source extension to the Git version control system developed by Microsoft to support the world's largest repositories.
Helping developers get more done
Microsoft is
releasing tools designed to help developers, development teams and data
scientists collaborate and work together more efficiently for
application development, deployment and management. New tools and
feature improvements help streamline essential tasks, so developers can
focus more on getting apps to market across multiple platforms, and for
any scenario — whether cloud, mobile or AI.
Visual Studio App Center General Availability
- New cloud service for developers to ship higher-quality applications more frequently. Objective-C, Swift, Android Java, Xamarin
and React Native developers can use App Center to increase productivity
and accelerate application lifecycle, freeing them to spend more time
on new features and better user experiences.
Visual Studio Live Share
- Unique new capability for developers to collaborate in a seamless
and secure way with full project context. With this preview, developers
can share projects with teammates, or other developers, to edit and
debug the same code in their personalized editor or IDE.
Azure DevOps Projects
- The preview lets developers configure a full DevOps pipeline and
connect to Azure Services within five minutes for faster app development
and deployment. With just a few clicks in the Azure portal, developers
can set up Git repositories, wire up completely automated builds and
release pipelines without any prior knowledge of how to do so.
Transforming business through analytics and AI
Advances in AI and machine learning are placing the seemingly
impossible within reach. The combination of cloud services,
infrastructure and tools from Microsoft
are designed to help any developer embrace AI and create apps across
the cloud and the edge, harnessing the power of data and AI.
Azure IoT Edge
- Azure IoT Edge preview availability, enabling AI, advanced analytics and machine learning at the Internet of Things (IoT) edge.
Azure Machine Learning updates
- Integration with Azure IoT Edge and AI deployment on iOS devices
with Core ML, bringing AI everywhere from the cloud to the IoT edge of
devices.
Visual Studio Tools for AI
- Developers and data scientists can develop AI models with all the
productivity of Visual Studio, on frameworks and languages. Updates to
.NET make it easier for .NET developers to consume AI models from their
applications.
Azure SQL Database Machine Learning services preview
- Support for R models inside SQL Database makes it seamless for data
scientists to develop and train models in Azure Machine Learning and
deploy those models directly to Azure SQL Database to create predictions
at blazing-fast speeds.
Source: Microsoft media announcement