Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Service: What Is It?

If you've never heard of Microsoft Azure before, you're not alone. Azure is a growing collaboration of all of Microsoft's cloud based programs into one service: Azure.

What Azure does is compute your data whilst storing it away inside different applications that help make everything run a little faster, all while you're saving your valuable assets like time and money.

But that’s just the beginning

Azure is the cloud platform rated by Gartner as the industry leader in infrastructure services (laaS) and platform-to platform services (PaaS). The biggest benefit of Azure is that by managing everything that was previously unmanaged, Windows saves you time and increases your overall productivity.

Instead of making you choose between your data and its location and your public cloud, Azure gives you the best enterprise-value hybrid cloud that integrates all of your information and your personal data in one easy to use interface with all of your favourite things. This expands your options without adding unnecessary complexity.

Azure also puts you in charge of the action by backing up your data storage, recovering your information and becoming more and more efficient and economical; this is all part of building your cloud profile too. Azure also enables you to work offline, away from the Cloud, if you need to.

Flexible and Available

With a flexible service that's open and always online, Azure provides a premium mode of storage. You can store virtually anything on the server too: any operating system, any language or tool. With its framework, you'll always have the best of Windows and Linux at your workstation to get you building and designing while you're sharing a platform that operates Skype, Office 365, Bing, and XBOX. It's always online, there's always tech support, and you can always monitor the health of your information. Over half of the top Fortune 500 companies use Azure software, and for good reason - it's doing great things.

Another great aspect about Azure is that while becoming a Home Premium user will get 27 GB for free, you can also just pay for what you use after that, meaning you don't have to commit to expensive plans.

So what exactly can you do with Azure? Here are just a few of the options.

 1. Build Your Infrastructure

You can build provisional virtual windows for Windows and Linux in minutes. Manage any tool you want to get the results you need.

2. Develop Modern Technology, Including Apps

You can manage, build, and deploy any application imaginable for any platform easy and effectively. Skydrive links your product to the web, mobile devices, media devices and top of the line business software solutions.

3. Gain Valuable Insight and Data

Azure provides managed data that includes SQL data and NoSQL type services as well. There's built-in support no matter where you go to build and gain insight plus you get to leverage all the power of your system in the easy to use SQL server, and analyze data with Hadoop clusters.

4. Manage Numerous Identities With Ease and Streamline Access

It's never been easier to synchronize accounts. It’s possible to link to Office 365 and hundreds of other different types of software to consolidate the functionality of Skydrive for your accounts.

Azure is possibly the best service that you’ve never heard of before. As you have learned, it is being put to work all around the world behind the scenes. If you’d like to learn even more about Azure, then click this link to go to the Microsoft website and learn straight from the source.

Alex Viall is the Director for London’s leading IT support companies for SME’s – Mustard IT.