Microsoft is working on another new Azure service focused on helping users deal with big data. That service, known as Azure Data Factory, is meant to allow users to consolidate a number of Microsoft ...

Microsoft Corp. is adding to the data management capabilities of its Azure cloud with the launch today of two new services into general availability. Company officials said in a series of blog posts ...

During the opening keynote address of its Build developer conference, Microsoft unveiled a data warehouse for the Azure cloud, along with "elastic databases" and a data lake. The new Azure SQL Data ...

The first generation of Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) was announced in 2015, and SQL DW "Gen 2" reached general availability in 2018. Today, at its Ignite confab on Orlando, Microsoft is ...

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a powerful data integration service from Microsoft Azure, enabling organizations to orchestrate and automate data flows across a wide array of cloud and on-premises ...

The goal of Gen2 - beyond ensuring the expected performance improvements - was to make Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) more compatible with the Apache ecosystem. Now, because ADLS is built on top of ...

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Microsoft has beefed up several data analytics offerings in its Azure cloud platform, headed by the general availability of Azure Data Explorer. Azure Data Explorer fosters real-time analytics of ...

A new Azure SQL Data Warehouse preview offered as a counter to Amazon's Redshift headed several data-related announcements at the opening of the Microsoft Build conference today. Also being announced ...

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