Deploy an Amazon EMR edge node with RStudio using AWS Systems Manager

By Dustin Ward

RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R, a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. As a data scientist, you may integrate R and Spark (a big data processing framework) to analyze large datasets. You can use an R package called sparklyr to offload filtering and aggregation of large datasets from your…

How Azure VPN helps organizations scale remote work

By Dustin Ward

In the weeks and months we have all been grappling with the global pandemic, there’s no doubt about the impact it has had on the lives of people everywhere. A shift to remote work is one of the widespread effects of the global pandemic, and we heard from organizations around the world who are looking…

New Azure VMware Solution is now in preview

By Dustin Ward

The new Azure VMware Solution is a first party Microsoft Azure Compute service that enables customers to run VMware natively on Azure. The new service is directly operated, delivered and supported by Microsoft, and is endorsed by VMware through a direct cloud provider partnership agreement.