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 ...

When it comes to building applications on the public cloud, you’re spoiled for storage. You’ve got SQL, NoSQL, graph databases, document databases, and even good old-fashioned file systems. Choosing ...

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 has previewed a new immutable storage capability for its Azure Storage Blobs, a move cheered by cloud-focused solution providers as a way to get clients in regulated industries to move their ...

Let us try to get a generic explanation for each of them! What is Blob storage in Azure? Blob is an acronym for Binary Large object. Basically, a Blob is a sequence of bytes—just what an application ...