The evolution of the public cloud has disrupted the traditional software industry. During the last decade, almost every mainstream enterprise software platform became available in the cloud. This ...

At Microsoft's Inspire partner conference event in Washington, DC today, the Redmond, WA-based software giant announced some serious enhancements to its Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Just one year after ...

Fresh from last week's Build developer conference in San Francisco, Microsoft executives appeared at the company's first-ever Ignite conference in Chicago and provided more details about the company's ...

A new Azure SQL Data Warehouse preview offered as a counter to Amazon's Redshift headed several data-related announcements at the opening of the Microsoft Build conference today. Also being announced ...

Organizations in today’s digital economy are constantly facing unprecedented pressure to innovate, accelerate decision-making ...

Microsoft’s Azure SQL Data Warehouse, the company’s cloud-based database service for big data workloads, is getting yet another speed bump today. A few months ago, the company sped up the service with ...

Big-data startup Snowflake Computing Inc. is bringing its cloud data warehouse to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform, giving customers a second option besides running it on Amazon Web Services.

Hyperscale cloud services such as Azure are designed to work with large amounts of data, taking advantage of their economies of scale when purchasing storage hardware. Their close relationship with ...

Microsoft yesterday announced major enhancements to its cloud data warehouse offering. Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Azure Data, Rohan Kumar, gave me the skinny in a private briefing in New ...

Azure Synapse Analytics is the result of a lot of work, and a little trial and error. At first, Ramakrishnan said, the team developed high–level guidelines showing ...