Machine Learning in Your Browser (sort of)

Azure Machine Learning This month, Microsoft GA’d their offering into the cloud machine learning space, Azure Machine Learning. For those that have done data mining in analysis services, both the workflow and the mining models should be familiar. In A Breath If you haven’t already been briefed, machine learning is often used as a way to … Continued

Adjustments for SQL Azure – NO OLE DB

Same Same, But Different Lately, I’ve been working with SQL Azure a lot more. For some of our simpler projects the differences aren’t that palpable, but the more data centric applications have started to tease out some of the more notable differences. Over next couple of months I’ll write up some of the more glaring … Continued

Cloud Pricing: The Race to the Bottom Continues

Monthly Slogan: It’s Never Been Cheaper A lot of our clients use cloud services like Microsoft Azure, Amazon WS, and the Google Cloud Platform. Some are doing BI tasks (think analytics services and storage) while others are hosting their production sites (think 24/7 scaling compute instances). What continues to surprise me is the cadence of recurring price … Continued