Big Data

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Abstract: Jerry Nixon and Tyler Gibson are back for part 2 of their UX design guidance series and in today’s episode, Tyler showcases the Netflix and Newegg apps for Windows 8 as good examples of apps that make it easier for users to find and process information. Next Steps:Step #1 – Download the…

Abstract: Jerry Nixon welcomes Tyler Gibson for this 2 part series on UX design considerations you may want to consider for your Windows 8 apps that handle large amounts of data. In part 1, they discuss best practices and how users evaluate, interpret and act on information. Next Steps:Step #1 –…

Like what you heard? Try Windows Azure for FREE and enjoy the freedom to use your preferred OS, language, database or tool. Windows Azure can help you deploy sites to a highly scalable environment, deploy and run virtual machines, and create highly scalable application in a rich PaaS environment.…

Abstract:Jerry Nixon and Matt Harrington welcome Evelyne Viegas, Don Syme and Kenji Takeda to the show as they discuss Try F#.org  - a new website designed to help you learn how to use F# in your applications as well how F#’s unique capabilities can best work for you. [3:15] What is Try F#?…

Naiad is an investigation of data-parallel dataflow computation in the spirit of Dryad and DryadLINQ, but with a focus on incremental computation. Naiad introduces a new computational model, differential dataflow, operating over collections of differences rather than collections of records, and…

In this episode Nick Harris and Nate Totten are joined by Wenming Ye to talk about the recently released preview of Windows Azure HDInsight.  Wenming discusses the types of scenarios that Windows Azure HDInsight can help address, the different ways for a developer to interact with…

This video walks you through the simple steps of signing up for Windows Azure HDInsight preview, creating your first cluster, and running two Map Reduce samples.  If you are trying the HDInsight service yourself, please make sure you shutdown the cluster when you no longer need…

This is a general Introduction to  Big Data, Hadoop, and Microsoft's new Hadoop-based Service called Windows Azure HDInsight.  This presentation is divided into two videos, this is Part 1.  We cover Big Data and Hadoop in this part of the presentation.    The…

Rafal Lukawiecki (Project Botticelli Ltd)This keynote does overview the entire Microsoft Application Platform, focusing on its applicability towards solving the current business challenges facing IT. We talk about IT metrics' struggle for increased business relevance in the ever-changing environment…