Geared mostly to Azure data services and heavily reliant on a JSON-based, handed-coded approach that only a Microsoft Program Manager could love, ADF was hardly a worthy successor to the SSIS legacy.

Recently Microsoft announced a new data governance solution in public preview on its cloud platform called Azure Purview. This new service automates the discovery of data and cataloging while ...

Ignite 2020 saw the public preview of Azure Arc enabled data services, the latest step in Microsoft's bid to demystify multicloud. Principal program manager Travis Wright explains how it works.

Working with Azure Arc’s data services has other advantages. You’re now working with Azure-managed applications on your own hardware, handing over responsibility for updates to Microsoft.

Microsoft recently announced Azure Health Data Services, a Platform-as-a-Service that allows organizations to upload, store, manage and analyze healthcare data in the open standards FHIR and DICOM.

Databricks has made a name for itself as one of the most popular commercial services around the Apache Spark data analytics platform (which, not coincidentally, was started by the founders of ...

Announced in November 2019 at the Ignite conference, Azure Arc has become the cornerstone of Microsoft’s hybrid and multi-cloud strategy.

At PASS Summit 2017, Microsoft announced SQL Operations Studio to help devs and admins monitor database performance and boost efficiency while Azure picked up a new "compute-optimized" service tier.

Azure Synapse Analytics is now nine months old. Time to review new GA and public preview features, and a new partnership too.