Microsoft Officially Launches Azure Machine Learning Platform

Re:Microsoft Officially Launches Azure Machine Learning Plat... by slagfart on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:56AM (#9072938)

Great usability, but it only integrates happily with other Microsoft cloud services. You can't read from BigQuery or Amazon RDS, for example - only the Microsoft equivalents. It's a deeply disappointing decision, and already rules it out for a use case in our firm.

Microsoft shouldn't forget how GM was driven to bankruptcy at least partially by its inhouse part sourcing policy. If there's a weak link in the Microsoft cloud offering, users will simply hold out for Amazon's equivalent platform, which is undoubtedly a matter of time.

You're a challenger in the arena, so don't act like an entrenched incumbent.

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Re:Microsoft Officially Launches Azure Machine Learning Plat... by Cakez0r on Thursday February 19, 2015 @03:03AM (#9072957)

All signs point towards Microsoft opening up their platforms rather than locking people in. I expect that in this case, it's more to do with the overhead of piping data in to and out of their data centers (I.E. paying for bandwidth) as opposed to getting bandwidth for free by having the data colocated with their ML servers.

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Re:Microsoft Officially Launches Azure Machine Learning Plat... by slagfart on Thursday February 19, 2015 @03:30AM (#9073018)

Fair call on MS, but this allows for free downloading of datasets from public URLs. Surely that's more expensive than downloading from the other cloud platforms, given that you've got a (probably?) higher likelihood of USA-based hosting when pulling from AWS/Google.

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