Microsoft Enhances Azure For Running Container, IoT And Machine Learning Workloads
Microsoft hosted a virtual event called Microsoft Connect(); to make strategic announcements related to developers tools, platforms, and cloud. With the latest enhancements, Azure gained new capabilities to run containerized applications, industrial IoT workloads and training machine learning models.
Microsoft Connect(); is typically scheduled just before AWS re:Invent. The Azure team utilizes the event to counter some of the announcements made by its archrival. This year, Microsoft chose to host it a week later. But the significance of the announcements is no less than what’s announced at premier events such as Build and Ignite.
The first and most exciting announcement is the general availability of Azure ML Services – a Platform as a Service offering to train, experiment, and deploy machine learning and deep learning models. The service joins Microsoft’s AI and ML portfolio comprising of Cognitive Services and Azure ML Studio.
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