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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Investing to remain current – Satalyst to attend Microsoft Build and Ignite conferences

By Todd on 25 Feb 2015

Satalyst invests heavily in training and experience for its staff to remain current and innovative in technology. In April 2015, Satalyst Chief Technology Officer, Aidan Morgan, will travel to San Francisco attend Microsoft’s Build Developer Conference: The Next Generation of Modern Apps. This highly esteemed annual conference sold out in 45 minutes! In May 2015, Damien Herbert, Satalyst Software Architect, will attend Microsoft’s Ignite conference in Chicago.  This is where the best and brightest minds will be all in one place to talk cloud infrastructure and management, productivity, big data and the internet of things, unified communications, mobility and more.

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