Bill Jacobs, Microsoft | Spark Summit 2016
Channel: SiliconANGLE theCUBE
Date: 08/06/2016

01. Bill Jacobs, Microsoft, visits #theCUBE!. (00:17)
02. Announcements and the Microsoft/Spark Relationship. (00:40)
03. New Applications Coming On Board with Spark. (03:33)
04. Industrial IOT: Manufacturing, Automation, Transportation. (05:39)
05. Identifying Constituencies in Big Data Analytics. (08:05)
06. The Computer Science "Bent" at Spark Summit. (11:19)

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Microsoft eyes spiking industry for data science | #SparkSummit
by Heather Johnson | Jun 9, 2016

Microsoft embraces open-source offerings such as Hadoop, which processes big, “messy” data sets, and Spark. But it takes schooling for data scientists to use these platforms. Microsoft hopes to ease the process with its Hadoop-based infrastructure in the Azure cloud.

Bill Jacobs, Director of Analytics and Product Marketing for Microsoft, told John Walls and George Gilbert (@ggilbert41), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE media team, during Spark Summit 2016 that Spark 1.6 is now available in the Azure Cloud, allowing data scientists to have “a fully running Spark cluster.”

A premier edition includes R Server technology. “This makes it possible for data scientists to take advantage of Spark,” says Jacobs. “There is a huge amount of performance available for the data scientist who would otherwise have to become quite schooled in Spark and Hadoop.”

While many sectors use those messy data sets, Jacobs sees industrial IoT, such as in the automotive industry, as a big growth area. “Statistical process control is not new to them,” says Jacob, noting that automakers used statistical processes beginning in 1935. “It’s a spiking industry because the knowledge of how to use statistics to improve manufacturing processes is not new. It can also improve customer experience by applying data science.”

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