Azure, Mobility and Big Data dominates at Microsoft’s Build 2015 Conference

By Todd on 07 May 2015

Satalyst’s Chief Technical Officer, Aidan Morgan, has returned from Microsoft’s Build 2015 developers’ conference in San Francisco.  Some of the fun and more buzzworthy sessions and demos outside the keynote addresses were around Microsoft’s efforts for the Internet of Things (both with Windows 10 and Azure) and the “Holographic Academy” sessions for Microsoft’s HoloLens.  But the dominant themes were around Azure, mobility and big data. Azure data centres now support 19 unique regions around the world, more than Amazon Web Services and Google’s cloud. In the past year alone, Microsoft launched 500 new Azure services. In his keynote speech, Scott Guthrie (Executive VP of the Cloud and Enterprise group) announced new options for big data: Azure SQL data warehouse service – a broad-scale data warehousing platform that runs in the cloud; and a Azure Data Lake – a hyper-scale data store for big data analytic workloads integrated with Azure Machine Learning and other big data services from Microsoft. Read from Scott Guthrie on Microsoft’s Official Blog.

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Microsoft 2015 Competencies

By Todd on 10 Feb 2015

Satalyst retains its Gold Data Analytics and Silver Cloud Productivity Microsoft Competencies and gains a Silver Cloud Platform competency for 2015. Gold competencies demonstrate best-in-class capability within a specific Microsoft solution area.  Silver competencies represent consistent capability, expertise, and commitment within a specific Microsoft solution area. What this means to our customers is that they can rest assured they are working with a dedicated team of Microsoft technology specialists.

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