Hear about the future of AI, why OpenAI chose Azure as its primary cloud platform, and new Azure innovations

http://ch9northcentralus.blob.core.windows.net/mfupload/fbd458cedc84462da606a6bf0015ceb5/WhyOpenAIChoseAzure.mp4 OpenAI chose Microsoft due to our deep learning research and ongoing commitment to AI along with the company’s open policy to research, Azure’s support for open source technologies and it’s unique combination of high performance computing, big data and intelligence capabilities such as Azure Batch, Azure Machine Learning and the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (formerly

TWC9: Windows Insider is Two, Connect() is coming, Docker .NET Images and more… | This Week On Channel 9

http://ch9northcentralus.blob.core.windows.net/mfupload/61254412ebc74bd484aaa69801639541/20161007TWC9.mp4 This week on Channel 9, Mark and Nikola discuss the week’s top developer news, including; [00:21] 2 year anniversary of the #WindowsInsiders program [Jen Gentleman] [01:24] Connect(); //2016 November 16-17 [02:06] Announcing Visual Studio “15” Preview 5 [John Montgomery], Release Notes [03:02] Just released – Windows developer virtual machines – September 2016 build [Clint

BYOL VS VMs GA

Bring Your Own License Visual Studio Virtual Machines are now Generally Available! So you can can download Hyper-V, VMWare, Parallels and VirtualBox VM’s that contain a non-expiring, non-trial Windows 10 Pro OS, one that has Visual Studio 2015 Community and all the related tools pre-installed. All you need to provide is a Windows 10 Pro

Find Inspiration to Do Things That Have Never Been Done Before with JPL

http://ch9northcentralus.blob.core.windows.net/mfupload/74b1630945cd49e298b4a5e80009a8ef/RTJPL1.mp4 Hear from visionary, Tom Soderstrom, IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on how technology and innovation work hand in hand and how JPL dares to do mighty things. With the launch of the Pasadena NASA Space Apps Challenge, Seth explores with Tom fascinating real-life examples from outer space and

SQL Server in an Azure VM | Data Exposed

http://ch9northcentralus.blob.core.windows.net/mfupload/4cab11f51fc44ee38b96a5d1015220b1/SQLServerInAzureVM.mp4 Today’s episode of Data Exposed Scott welcomes Luis Vargas to the show, a Principal Program Manager in the SQL Server group, to talk about SQL Server in an Azure Virtual Machine offering available. With no slides and all demo, Luis jumps right in and provides a quick overview of the available SQL Server offering

SQL Server in an Azure VM

Enhancing Azure VMs Protection with ESET File Security Extension

We are excited to announce that this week ESET became part of the Azure Marketplace Security VM Extensions family. By provisioning ESET File Security as VM extension, users can get the enhanced security and experience of ESET. Their Solution, designed specifically for Windows Server is expanded to an even larger user base – business customers

Integrate your on-premises infrastructure with Azure

If you’ve experimented with Microsoft Azure, or are already using it for some of your IT functionality, you may be ready to take that next step and integrate your infrastructure with Azure so you can use it as an extension to your on-premises infrastructure. Finding all the information that helps you do this can be

Azure Site Recovery GA: Move VMware, AWS, Hyper-V and Physical Servers to Azure

To enable our customers to move heterogeneous workloads from multiple environments – VMware, Hyper-V, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or physical servers – to Azure, we are announcing the general availability (GA) of application-aware, one-click migration with Azure Site Recovery. With this new GA, all of Microsoft Migration Accelerator’s functionality is now incorporated into Azure Site

Announcing new and improved DataStax Cluster deployment experience on Azure Marketplace

Earlier this week at WPC 2015, we launched a new and improved DataStax Cassandra cluster (BYOL) deployment experience on Azure. In a single click, you can deploy 4, 12 or 36 nodes (VMs) running fantastic power of DataStax. In this blog post, we will walk you through the steps required to deploy this cluster. About