Data professionals

This week at Ignite, we announced new capabilities in Azure Data Factory (ADF) service available in public preview for customers.

Today, I am excited to announce the upcoming availability of a new, faster performance tier for Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) is a fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud service for data warehousing.

Today at Microsoft Ignite, we are pleased to announce the preview of several new and compelling capabilities in Azure Stream Analytics.

Over the past year, the Microsoft Azure team has explicitly focused on removing all barriers for enterprise customers, so that even the most complex technology and policy requirements are uniquely met with Azure.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most disruptive forces behind the digital transformation of business.

We had announced the availability of Linux on-premises and cross-region mounting of Azure Files for the first OS distribution – Ubuntu 17.04, in April.

Support for Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS) is now available in Azure Analysis Services and in SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT). Now you can augment your big data analytics workloads with rich interactive analysis for selected data subsets at the speed of thought!

Today we are launching Try Azure Cosmos DB for free, an experience that allows anyone to play with Azure Cosmos DB, with no Azure sign up required and at no charge for a limited time.

At Microsoft our commitment is to make AI more accessible and valuable for everyone. We offer a variety of platforms and tools to facilitate this, including our Cognitive Toolkit, an open source framework for building deep neural networks.

Earlier this year at Microsoft Build, we announced the public preview of Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Central to our security strategy in ensuring protection of our customer’s data, we are taking a step further, by enabling encryption by default using Microsoft Managed Keys for all the data written to all Azure services (Blob, File, Table and Queue storage) for all storage

As of today, the default compatibility level for new databases created in Azure SQL Database is 130.