Cloud Computing: Microsoft sees new Azure tool as a proactive trouble-shooter

Grazed from CNet. Author: Charles Cooper.

Satya Nadella’s first tweet came in mid-February 2009 and it consisted of two words. "Machine learning!" he wrote. Even for Twitter’s 140 character limit, that was a brief entry and was more cryptic than the usual inaugural tweet — something along the lines of "Knicks stink" or "Springsteen rocks" — but in retrospect, it’s starting to make sense.

At the time, Nadella, who became Microsoft’s chief executive this past February, was in charge of research and development for the company’s Online Services division. It turns out that Microsoft was embedding this kind of predictive machine-learning technology into its Bing search engine to return relevant answers to user queries in ranked order…

Fast forward to July: that’s when Microsoft releases a beta version of its technology to anyone signing into its Azure cloud computing service. Microsoft says this will dramatically reduce development times to hours, sometimes minutes, thus simplifying a process that sometimes would require months to build machine learning models, according to Joseph Sirosh, the newly appointed vice president of machine learning at Microsoft…

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