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In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Azure services now run anywhere with new hybrid capabilities: Announcing Azure Arc
Enterprises rely on a hybrid technology approach to take advantage of their on-premises investment and, at the same time, utilize cloud innovation. As more business operations and applications expand to include edge devices and multiple clouds, hybrid capabilities must enable…
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
Simply unmatched, truly limitless: Announcing Azure Synapse Analytics
Today, businesses are forced to maintain two types of analytical systems, data warehouses and data lakes. Data warehouses provide critical insights on business health. Data lakes can uncover important signals on customers, products, employees, and processes. Both are critical, yet…
In the news | GeekWire
New Microsoft Azure service helps companies share (and potentially sell) their internal data
A new cloud service unveiled by Microsoft today sets the stage for the company’s customers to share and monetize some of their most valuable internal data.
In the news | VentureBeat
Microsoft’s Azure Data Share aims to make big data sharing easier and safer
Big data analytics is no joke — research firm Research and Markets anticipates the segment will be worth upwards of $40.6 billion by 2024. Perhaps that’s why it’s not surprising that ahead of Inspire 2019 in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced…
In the news | TechCrunch
Microsoft acquires Citus Data
Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Citus Data, a company that focused on making PostgreSQL databases faster and more scalable. Citus’ open-source PostgreSQL extension essentially turns the application into a distributed database and, while there has been a lot…
In the news | Microsoft Azure Blog
How Microsoft drives exabyte analytics on the world’s largest YARN cluster
At Microsoft, like many companies using data for competitive advantage, opportunities for insight abound and our analytics needs were scaling fast – almost out of control. We invested in Yet Another Resource Manager (YARN) to meet the demands of an…