Azure Update Management: A year of great updates
Azure Update Management is a service included as part of your Azure Subscription that enables you to manage your Windows and Linux server patching from a single place, both on-premises and in Azure.
Analytics
Parameterize connections to your data stores in Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory (ADF) enables you to do hybrid data movement from 70 plus data stores in a serverless fashion. Often users want to connect to multiple data stores of the same type.
Supercharge your Azure Stream Analytics queries with C# code
Azure Stream Analytics is Microsoft’s serverless real-time analytics offering for complex event processing. It enables customers to unlock valuable insights and gain a competitive advantage by harnessing the power of big data.
Data models within Azure Analysis Services and Power BI
In a world where self-service and speed of delivery are key priorities in any reporting BI solution, the importance of creating a comprehensive and performant data semantic model layer is sometimes overlooked.
Re-define analytics with Azure SQL Data Warehouse Gen2 tier now generally available
Microsoft Azure Government regions give unparalleled flexibility for US government agencies and their partners. Today, we announce the general availability of industry-leading performance Azure SQL Data Warehouse Compute Optimized Gen2 tier for government customers in the US Gov Arizona and US Gov Texas regions.
Bring Your Own Keys for Apache Kafka on HDInsight
One of the biggest security and compliance requirement for enterprise customers is to encrypt their data at rest using their own encryption key. This is even more critical in a post-GDPR world.
Enabling real-time data warehousing with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
SQL Data Warehouse is happy to announce that Striim now fully supports SQL Data Warehouse as a target for Striim for Azure. Striim enables continuous non-intrusive performant ingestion of all your enterprise data from a variety of sources in real time.
Cloud Scale Analytics meets Office 365 data – empowered by Azure Data Factory
Office 365 holds a wealth of information about how people work and how they interact and collaborate with each other, and this valuable asset enables intelligent applications to derive value and to optimize organizational productivity.
HDInsight Enterprise Security Package now generally available
HDInsight team is excited to reveal general availability (GA) of Enterprise Security Package (ESP) for Apache Spark, Apache Hadoop and Interactive Query clusters in HDI 3.6.
New Azure HDInsight management SDK now in public preview
Today, we are excited to announce the preview of the new Azure HDInsight Management SDK. This preview SDK brings support for new languages and can be used to easily manage your HDInsight clusters.
Deep dive into Azure HDInsight 4.0
We are thrilled to announce that HDInsight 4.0 is now available in public preview. HDInsight 4.0 brings latest Apache Hadoop 3.
Azure HDInsight and Starburst bring Presto to Microsoft Azure customers
Microsoft and Starburst are excited to announce that Starburst Presto has been added to the Azure HDInsight Application Platform.