eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Microsoft continues to bolster its Azure data services ...

Learn More Microsoft today announced the general availability of Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2) — two services it says will afford Azure customers ...

A stronger Azure Data Explorer should make for a stronger Synapse Analytics, a stronger Azure Machine Learning, a stronger HDInsight and a more valuable Azure Data Lake Storage layer. Stronger ...

with the general availability of Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS). Microsoft says its Azure-based cloud analytics platform delivers the industry’s best price-performance ...

[Click on image for larger view.] Azure Data Explorer (source: Microsoft). Azure Data Lake Storage, built on Azure Blob Storage, was described by White as "the first cloud storage that combines the ...

And while Synapse has its Azure Synapse studio, SQL Server 2019 offers a notebook-capable, cross-platform (Windows/macOS/Linux) desktop user interface for database and data lake workloads ...

The new Azure Data Lake service aims to let you get value out of all your data in the cloud, using familiar tools and skills. Microsoft has been working with big data for a long time. Internally ...

Data Explorer is a big data analytics platform ... to explore with new questions that you haven’t asked before. Azure Data Lake Analytics helps you extract, clean, and prepare data from Azure ...

Mapping Data Flows will clean, normalize and flatten the data, in Parquet format, in multiple data sinks such as Azure Data Lake Storage ... Finally, Azure Data Explorer is adding new sources ...

Finally, Microsoft’s Azure HDInsight is now included in Azure Data Lake as well, offering a fully managed Apache Hadoop cluster service with open-source analytics engines including Hive, Spark ...