Tag: Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Bolsters Azure Integration with SQL Server 2022
SQL Server 2022 customers will see benefits in the areas of data integration, analytics, governance, and high availability thanks to the database’s enhanced connectivity to the Azure cloud, Microsoft announced today. Read more…
Microsoft Extends Cassandra Rings with NoSQL Database Preview
Microsoft today announced the public preview of a new Cassandra database service for Azure Cosmos DB. The service, called Azure Managed Instance for Apache Cassandra, extends previous work that Microsoft did with Cassand Read more…
Microsoft Now Developing Its Own Hadoop
Hadoop might be dead, but that’s not stopping public cloud providers from using it. The latest to make a move is Microsoft Azure, which in July announced that it would begin developing its own distribution under its HD Read more…
Data Science, ML Platform Leader Board Shuffled
A roster of technology hyper-scalers and a batch of up-and-comers make the latest rankings of the leading data science and AI and machine learning platforms. Market tracker Omdia’s list of AI and ML development plat Read more…
The Big Cloud Data Boom Gets Even Bigger, Thanks to COVID-19
Public clouds were gaining momentum before COVID-19. Now, nearly eight weeks into the pandemic and associated shutdown of work and play, clouds are gaining even more ground as companies scramble to virtualize as much of Read more…
Oracle Sees AI Advancing Finance, Supply Chains
Corporate finance and IT departments along with supply chain managers are the largest benefactors of AI technology, according to an emerging technologies study released this week by Oracle. Separately, Oracle (NYSE: O Read more…
Tibco Expands Cloud Services, Partnerships
Tibco Software, the cloud and business intelligence specialist, announced a batch of upgraded services and partnerships this week, including expanded cloud-native support aimed at developers along with a cloud partnershi Read more…
Azure SQL Warehouse Gets New Data Link
Data integrators continue to roll out connections between huge data stores and public cloud data warehouses. The latest comes from Talend, which this week unveiled a data fabric “uploader” designed to help ingest big Read more…
Microsoft Joins SnapLogic Investors
SnapLogic Inc., the purveyor of a platform designed to integrate data and applications, said it has completed a Series E funding round that includes Microsoft. Along with Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), SnapLogic said Thurs Read more…
Azure Cloud Adds Hadoop Security
As Microsoft broadens its Azure cloud with new analytics capabilities and hardware to accelerate performance, another analytics partner has announced plans to add its big data security features to Hadoop deployments runn Read more…