Microsoft this week released Azure Data Lake as a generally available (GA), production-ready service, backed by Microsoft's 99.9 percent service-level agreement. Azure Data Lake is a service for "Big ...

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 today announced Azure Data Lake, a new data repository for big data analytics workloads, during its Build developer conference keynote. The idea behind Data Lake is — as the name implies — ...

Microsoft's Azure platform looks like, at first glance, a bewildering array of services and features, many of which have been recently updated including Azure Stream Analytics, SQL Database, Container ...

Back in mid-March, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Databricks, which has now gotten a series of additions. However, before diving straight into said announcements, a bit of ...

Cosmetics giant L’Oréal has created a data lake within a private Microsoft Azure infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environment to accelerate its research and development efforts. The data lake ...