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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft continues to bolster its Azure data services offerings for enterprise users with its announcement that Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Azure Data Explorer are now generally available for ...

Okera, which offers a centralized security, governance and access solution for data lakes and data warehouses, has announced support for data lakes on the Microsoft Azure cloud. While Amazon Web ...

Microsoft today introduced the launch of Azure Data Lake Analytics, a new cloud-based service for running queries on big data stored in the Microsoft’s growing public cloud. It uses a new ...

Wealth management business Netwealth delivers investment and superannuation services to more than 80,000 members. With more than $34 billion of funds under management, the organisation knows the power ...

Most companies today are collecting enormous amounts of data, and chances are they know that data contains crucial insights about everything from what customers want to purchase at 10 p.m. on Friday ...

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 ...

Microsoft Azure’s new, unified data platform aims to be your one-stop shop for analytics and machine learning at scale. Tracking the annual flurry of announcements at Microsoft Build is a good way to ...