Build & Deploy Machine Learning Apps on Big Data Platforms with Microsoft Linux Data Science Virtual Machine

This post is authored by Gopi Kumar, Principal Program Manager in the Data Group at Microsoft. This post covers our latest additions to the Microsoft Linux Data Science Virtual Machine (DSVM), a custom VM image on Azure, purpose-built for data science, deep learning and analytics. Offered in both Microsoft Windows and Linux editions, DSVM includes a rich collection of tools, seen in the picture below, and makes you more productive when it comes to building and deploying advanced machine learning and analytics apps. The central theme of our latest Linux DSVM release is to enable the development and testing of ML apps for deployment to distributed scalable platforms such as Spark, Hadoop and Microsoft R Server, for operating on data at a very large scale. In addition, with this release, DSVM also offers Julia Computing's JuliaPro on both Linux and Windows editions.