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 ...

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Microsoft is making a preview release of its second generation version of its Azure Data Lake Storage Service. Calling the "Gen2" version a "no-compromise data lake," Microsoft officials announced the ...

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 ...

Back in mid-March, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Databricks, which has now gotten a series of additions. However, before diving straight into said announcements, a bit of ...

Microsoft today announced that Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for Azure Storage now also allows customers to protect data stored in Azure Files file shares and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 API data ...

Microsoft Corp. is adding to the data management capabilities of its Azure cloud with the launch today of two new services into general availability. Company officials said in a series of blog posts ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced the preview release of Azure Purview, a new data governance solution, as well as the "general availability" commercial release of Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure ...