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 ...

Azure Data Lake and Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio (version 2.4), which is a plugin for local U-SQL and Azure Data Lake development. Once you install this, relevant Azure Data Lake Analytics ...

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 today introduced the launch of Azure Data Lake Analytics, a new cloud-based service for running queries on big data stored in the Microsoft’s growing public cloud. It uses a new ...

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 ...

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 ...

Handling large amounts of data is a prerequisite of digital transformation, and key to this are the concepts of data lakes and data warehouses, as well as data hubs and data marts. In this article, we ...

Dive into data lakes—what they are, how they're used, and how data lakes are both different and complementary to data warehouses. In 2011, James Dixon, then CTO of the business intelligence company ...

Microsoft Azure’s new, unified data platform aims to be your one-stop shop for analytics and machine learning at scale. Tracking the annual flurry of announcements at Microsoft Build is a good way to ...

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