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 ...

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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 ...

As businesses continue to focus on leveraging Big Data, IT teams can prevent raw data from being siloed by gathering it into a central repository. Jennifer Zaino is a New York-based freelance writer ...