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 today announced Azure Data Lake, a new data repository for big data analytics workloads, during its Build developer conference keynote. The idea behind Data Lake is — as the name implies — ...

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 ...

There's a new buzzword on the loose, the "data lake." At first glance, a data lake could be easily mistaken for a data warehouse. The two big data concepts have a common focus on analytics and they ...

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While Microsoft announced plans for its Azure Data Lake service in April at its Build conference, it wasn't until today that company officials made clear what would power its coming enterprise-wide ...

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 ...

Most companies today are collecting enormous amounts of data, and chances are they know that data contains crucial insights about everything from what customers want to purchase at 10 p.m. on Friday ...

Teradata, the connected multi-cloud data platform for enterprise analytics, is announcing its newfound collaboration with Microsoft, bringing the Teradata VantageCloud Lake to Microsoft Azure, ...

At its annual Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft today announced a major new Azure service for enterprises: Azure Synapse Analytics, which Microsoft describes as “the next evolution of ...