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Microsoft had its sights set squarely on big data when it introduced its Azure Data Lake earlier this year, and on Monday it broadened that effort with new tools designed to make big data processing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 updated its Visual Studio Code extension for working with the Azure Data Lake for Big Data analytics in the cloud, furthering integration of the extension's data exploration tool among other ...

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 ...

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 is ramping up its Azure public cloud in its effort to gnaw away at the hindquarters of Amazon Web Services, which it trails in the ongoing drive to herd enterprise computing into the cloud.