At its annual Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft today announced a major new Azure service for enterprises: Azure Synapse Analytics, which Microsoft describes as “the next evolution of ...

Azure Synapse Analytics was first revealed by Microsoft in November 2019, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, back when we still had live events. With just a few months to go until its first birthday ...

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Hyperscale cloud services such as Azure are designed to work with large amounts of data, taking advantage of their economies of scale when purchasing storage hardware. Their close relationship with ...

The first generation of Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) was announced in 2015, and SQL DW "Gen 2" reached general availability in 2018. Today, at its Ignite confab on Orlando, Microsoft is ...

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Perhaps the headliner is Azure Synapse Analytics, a service now in preview that leverages on-demand or provisioned resources to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for business intelligence and AI ...

Azure was center stage on the first day of the Microsoft Ignite conference as CEO Satya Nadella announced new services in data storage, analytics, and artificial intelligence. In a vision keynote ...

Azure Synapse Analytics is the result of a lot of work, and a little trial and error. At first, Ramakrishnan said, the team developed high–level guidelines showing ...

At its annual Ignite conference in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft today announced a major new Azure service for enterprises: Azure Synapse Analytics, which Microsoft describes as "the next evolution of ...