In our data outlook for 2022, we posed the question of whether data clouds -- or cloud computing in general -- get easier this year. Our question was directed at the bewildering array of cloud ...

Databricks Inc. today introduced a new serverless database called Lakebase that can process more than 10,000 queries per second. The service is based on PostgreSQL, a popular open-source relational ...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service has had a rocky journey to where it is today. Its initial focus on delivering PaaS was clearly too early for the rest of the industry, and it was only a pivot to ...

Microsoft is adding support for Java to its Azure serverless compute service. On Oct. 4, Microsoft announced at the JavaOne show that it is making a public preview of Java support for Functions ...

Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of its Cloud and AI Group, speaks at Microsoft Build 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Cloud customers are getting used to the idea of paying ...

At a Spark Summit 2017 conference this week, Databricks announced that it will be making an instance of the Apache Spark in-memory computing framework available as a managed cloud service running on ...

Microsoft this week launched Azure Event Grid, a new managed service aimed at developers who are increasingly building event-based, responsive applications that require event routing and handling.