TechNet Flash: Big Data: The tools to make sense of and take action on your collected data

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Volume 15, Issue 3 | February 6, 2013

1. ▪ TechNet Feature: Big Data on premises or in the cloud
5. ▪ Download SQL Server 2012 SP1
8. ▪ Windows Azure Media Services now available

Editors Note Mitch Irsfeld

TechNet Flash Editor

Windows Azure Media Services now available

For a couple reasons, it's time for another look at Microsoft's Big Data strategy: The Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2012 SP1 was just released with new functionality that simplifies the backup and restore capability of an on-premises SQL Server database to Windows Azure; and Microsoft's enterprise-ready Hadoop service, HDInsight, is now available on Windows Server or as a Windows Azure service....

Read more For a couple reasons, it's time for another look at Microsoft's Big Data strategy: The Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2012 SP1 was just released with new functionality that simplifies the backup and restore capability of an on-premises SQL Server database to Windows Azure; and Microsoft's enterprise-ready Hadoop service, HDInsight, is now available on Windows Server or as a Windows Azure service....

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