Jayaram Krishnaswamy

Azure Data Lake Store in Private Preview Recently announced Azure Data Lake addresses the big data  3V challenges; volume, velocity and variety. It is one more storage feature in addition to blobs and SQL Azure database. Azure Data Lake (should have been Azure Data Ocean IMHO) is really omnipotent. Just look at the key capabilities of Azure Data Lake: Any Data Native format, distributed data store. No need to pre-define schema information. From unstructured to structured data handling. Any Size Kilo bytes to Exa bytes OK. Ready for read/write. At any scale Scale to match your needs; high volume data handling of small writes and low latency. Can Aaddress near real-time web analytics scenarios. HDFS Compatible Works out-of-the box with Hadoop including services such as HD Insight Full integration with Azure Active Directory Supporting identity and access management over all of ... (more)

Azure PowerShell 1.0 Is in Preview | @CloudExpo @Azure #Microservices

Azure PowerShell 1.0 Is in Preview Now You can find Preview of Azure PowerShell in PowerShell gallery now. Later on an MSI or WebPI installer version of the preview will be added. The present 0.9.8 version will become 1.0 in due course and the preview is only for testing, not really for production. The stated goals of this preview are: Enable better support for Resource Manager in Azure Automation Separate Azure Service Management and Resource Manager functionality to provide clarity regarding features of Azure the cmdlets target Enforce semantic versioning and ensure cmdlets autho... (more)

Microsoft's Globally distributed database, Azure Cosmos DB

"Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-model database. With the click of a button, Azure Cosmos DB enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure's geographic regions. It offers throughput, latency, availability, and consistency guarantees with comprehensive service level agreements (SLAs), something no other database service can offer" If you are looking for Global Distribution, horizontal scaling, guaranteed latency, high availability, comprehensive SLA's and unrivalled Data Model and APIs that no RDBMS,... (more)

Microsoft Cloud OS Network Is Launched

This post is a mini brief note (my version) of Microsoft Post on their TechNet site. Microsoft launched the Cloud OS Network today. Cloud Operating System - CloudOS - has a network of more than 25 cloud service providers (CSVs) who will deliver hosted services built on Microsoft Cloud Platform consisting of: Windows Servers with Hyper-V System Center Windows Azure Pack When business needs are top priority, businesses can keep mission-critical data applications locally on premises and choose to use the storage and computing in the cloud when needed. This gives them the liberty of h... (more)

Wiring up the Internet of Things with Node-RED

Node-RED created in an IBM laboratory (UK) is a GUI for wiring up the Internet of Things (IoT) built-on Node.JS. It is possible that some of you have known, or used LabView. LabView  is a GUI for wiring up complex laboratory equipment like Voltage sources, measuring instruments, automated relays, rf generators, lasers, robots etc., but Node-RED is some thing similar for IoT but lot more extensible network-wise. Of course my knowledge of LabView is not current and you may find more information from National Instruments. Source: http://iotsolutionsalliance.intel.com/member-roster/... (more)