Partners Say New Azure Machine Learning Service Could Be Microsoft's Secret Weapon In T... - 0 views
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Azure Machine Learning is a public cloud-based service that lets developers embed predictive analytics into their applications
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Machine learning software has been around for years but isn't easy to use or deploy, and it's also expensive, Sirosh said. Packaging up machine-learning-as-a-cloud service solves these problems, and by being first to bring it to market, Microsoft has a head start on the likes of Google, Amazon and IBM, he said. "I think, on this particular front, that we are the leaders," Sirosh told CRN.
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Hiring Sirosh was something of a coup for Microsoft. He joined last July from Amazon, where he spent close to nine years as a vice president in various machine-learning-related roles.