Data professionals

Tailwind Traders is a retail company that is looking to adopt Azure as part of its IT strategy.

Over the past year, it’s become clear that no business is immune to sudden changes. Embracing data as a strategic asset is key to remaining agile amidst uncertainty.

Tens of thousands of customers, such as Pepsi, Amway, Airbus, BBC, and Progressive Insurance are using Azure AI to deliver immersive customer experiences, identify new business opportunities, and drive impact.

For any organization to succeed in a world of unprecedented uncertainty, a new level of agility is required.

In today’s fast-paced world, there is often a need for instantaneous, real-time responses. Companies are finding the computing needed to support this 24/7 mentality generates staggering amounts of data, often from devices out in the physical world.

We are announcing that the preview release of the Apache Spark 3.0 compatible Apache Spark Connector for SQL Server and Azure SQL, available through Maven.

As organizations continue to embrace Linux, we see a growing number of enterprises running business and mission-critical workloads on Linux virtual machines in Azure.

From improving clinical decision making to better managing the COVID-19 pandemic, the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) applied to health and medicine are undeniable.

As customers grow their mission critical workloads, scaling up to manage spiky workloads in house can become an expensive proposition.

Keeping up with the rapid pace of technology innovation today requires equal advances in the pace of development of new microelectronics.

For companies worldwide, SAP is at the core of their business applications—housing critical information on sales, manufacturing, and financial processes. However, due to the inherent sophistication of SAP systems, many organizations struggle to integrate SAP data into modern analytics projects.

As businesses move more workstreams to the cloud, business continuity and data protection have never been more critical—and perhaps their importance has never been more visible than during the challenges and unpredictability of 2020.