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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 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 is piloting a new way for Dynamics 365 Business Central customers to host their ERP data in an Azure Data Lake for data warehouse and analytics needs. “Our solution opens up some interesting ...

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 ...