NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- 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.
For the next three days, Microsoft is streaming more than 36
live, engineering-led training sessions that are designed to give
developers hands-on experience with the tools and technologies
featured throughout the keynote presentations.
More about Connect(); 2017 announcements can be found here.
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) is the leading platform and
productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and
its mission is to empower every person and every organization on
the planet to achieve more.
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