Microsoft R Server VMs available in Azure China

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 This post is authored by Bharath Sankaranarayan, Principal Program Manager, at Microsoft.

We have expanded our footprint of Microsoft R Server Virtual Machines and is available in Azure China, both China North and China East. This will provide our customers the ability to leverage Microsoft R Server 9.0 for building advanced analytics solutions in the cloud similar.

 This includes R Server Only SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Edition, R Server on Linux (CentOS 7.2) and R Server on Linux (Ubuntu 16.40).  They are available in several configurations to meet your needs. This release includes a lot of capabilities based on requests from our customers and you can read all about it here

 We are working on expanding Microsoft R Server VM availability to all Azure Regions and will post an update when they become available.

 Bharath