Earlier this year, in May, Microsoft introduced a number of new features for its Azure Analytics and database space. As part of these, Azure Data Factory (ADF) also got some new capabilities. For ...

The second major version of Azure Data Factory, Microsoft's cloud service for ETL (Extract, Transform and Load), data prep and data movement, was released to general availability (GA) about two months ...

Microsoft wants its Azure cloud platform to be the default place for organizations to run their workloads. In an ideal world (in their view anyway), all those workloads would be built upon proprietary ...

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If you want to make good data-driven decisions, it’s critical for your data to be as accurate as possible. But ensuring the accuracy of data can be a difficult task in large enterprise environments ...

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In response to developer feedback, Microsoft is taking a page from the growing visual, low-code development approach to simplify Big Data analytics in the cloud with Azure Data Factory. The new visual ...

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 ...

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 ...

The company’s performance is redefining what hyperscale looks like in the artificial intelligence era. An objective analysis of the Q4 FY2025 earnings call suggests that Microsoft is firing on all ...