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 ...

One of the big issues facing anyone building a data-driven devops practice is, quite simply, the scale of the data you’re collecting. Logs from millions of users quickly add up, and the same is true ...

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud is getting boosted with an array of data-focused updates, with expanded capabilities for its Intelligent Data Platform and new functions in its main database offerings ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

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 ...

Microsoft launched its Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL services to general availability (GA) in 2018. When those services began their preview the year before, the notion that Microsoft itself ...

Nodes can run as SQL compute nodes, SQL storage nodes or HDFS data nodes. In the HDFS case, SQL Server and Apache Spark run co-located, in the same container. All of this interoperability is enabled ...

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 ...