The Modern Data Warehouse (MDW) pattern makes it easier than ever to deal with the increasing volume of enterprise data by enabling massive, global-scale writes operations while making the information ...

It's been a big few weeks for database and analytics news on the Microsoft Azure cloud. On June 27th, Microsoft had various announcements regarding Azure data storage and data integration. And, just ...

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At its Inspire 2017 conference this week, Microsoft unveiled a slew of different enterprise-focused announcements, among which is the creation of Microsoft 365, a service which combines Windows 10, ...

Microsoft's drive to put Azure SQL Data Warehouse on more equal footing with SQL Server is finally paying off. Azure SQL Data Warehouse gets less press than its online transaction processing brethren, ...

Microsoft’s Azure SQL Data Warehouse, the company’s cloud-based database service for big data workloads, is getting yet another speed bump today. A few months ago, the company sped up the service with ...

Microsoft today announced that its elastic cloud computing platform Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now generally available. Billed as a database-as-a-service offering, Azure SQL Data Warehouse is ...

That Snowflake started off on AWS is somewhat ironic, given the company's Microsoft DNA. For example, Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia once led the Server and Tools Business (the precursor to today's Cloud ...

Microsoft and RedisLabs are collaborating to bring advanced Redis features to Azure, adding new in-memory database tools to Azure’s cache service NoSQL storage comes in many types. Some are document ...