Microsoft plans to make its Azure Data Lake store, analytics service and new query language -- all derivatives of its internal 'Cosmos' technologies -- available in public preview before year-end.

Azure Data Lake is a centralized cloud repository that can store vast amounts of data in its original format. There's no need to convert unstructured or semistructured data into a structured format in ...

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 is building on its cloud offerings with an expanded Azure Data Lake, arriving with analytics tools designed to simplify big data, and with a new query language. We first learned about the ...

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 ...

Microsoft's Apache Spark-based analytics platform has now gotten a series of enhancements centered around big data service integrations, while also expanding its availability to four new regions. Back ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

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 greater flexibility in ...