Raghu Ramakrishnan | Microsoft Azure Blog

March 8, 2022
2 min read

Introducing dynamic lineage extraction from Azure SQL Databases in Azure Purview

Data citizens including both technical and business users rely on data lineage for root cause analysis, impact analysis, data quality tracing, and other data governance applications.

May 19, 2020
2 min read

Azure Analytics: Clarity in an instant

Today, we’re pleased to announce the preview of Azure Synapse Link, a cloud-native implementation of HTAP.

March 2, 2020
4 min read

Azure HDInsight and Azure Database for PostgreSQL news

Over the last decade, Microsoft has become one of the largest open source contributors in the world, adding to Hadoop, Linux, Kubernetes, Python, and more.

August 9, 2018
6 min read

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.

July 12, 2018
3 min read

Azure sets new performance benchmarks with SQL Data Warehouse

Today we are excited to announce that Azure SQL Data Warehouse has set new performance benchmarks for cloud data warehousing by delivering at least 2x faster query performance compared to before.

September 30, 2015
7 min read

Behind the scenes of Azure Data Lake: Bringing Microsoft’s big data experience to Hadoop

Microsoft just announced Azure Data Lake, a set of big data storage and analytics services including Azure HDInsight that enables developers, data scientists and analysts to perform all types of processing and analytics on data of any size or shape and across multiple platforms and programming languages.