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Analytics, Announcements, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Synapse Analytics

Published August 16, 2022 • 2 min read

Azure Data Explorer: Log and telemetry analytics benchmark

By Arun Ulagaratchagan Corporate Vice President, Azure Data

Azure Data Explorer, a component of Azure Synapse Analytics, is a highly scalable analytics service optimized for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. It provides users with an interactive query experience that unlocks insights from the ocean of ever-growing log and telemetry data. It is the perfect service to analyze high volumes of fresh and historical data in the cloud by using SQL or the Kusto Query Language (KQL), a powerful and user-friendly query language. The GigaOm report shows that Azure Data Explorer provides superior performance at a significantly lower cost than both Snowflake and Google BigQuery.

Analytics, Azure Databricks, Azure Health Data Services, Azure Synapse Analytics, Integration, Thought leadership

Published June 10, 2022 • 2 min read

Supporting openEHR with Azure Health Data Services

By Matjaz Ladava Principal Group Program Manager, Healthcare Engineering

This blog is part of a series in collaboration with our partners and customers leveraging the newly announced Azure Health Data Services. Azure Health Data Services, a platform as a service (PaaS) offering designed exclusively to support Protected Health Information (PHI) in the cloud, is a new way of working with unified data—providing care teams with a platform to support both transactional and analytical workloads from the same data store and enabling cloud computing to transform how we develop and deliver AI across the healthcare ecosystem.

Analytics, Announcements, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databases

Published May 24, 2022 • 5 min read

Introducing the Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform

By Rohan Kumar Corporate Vice President, Azure Data

It’s clear that the fragmentation which exists today between databases, analytics, and governance products must be addressed. To help organizations unlock these new capabilities, we shared several exciting announcements today at Microsoft Build that demonstrate our continued innovation and investment in the data products our customers have come to know and trust.

Analytics, Announcements, Management and Governance, Microsoft Purview

Published April 19, 2022 • 3 min read

Azure Purview is now Microsoft Purview

By Jessica Hawk Corporate Vice President Data, AI, and Digital Application Product Marketing

Today, we are excited to introduce Microsoft Purview—a comprehensive set of solutions from Microsoft to help you govern, protect, and manage your entire data estate.

Analytics, Announcements, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databases, Microsoft Purview

Published December 16, 2021 • 4 min read

Microsoft named a Leader in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud DBMS Platforms

By Rohan Kumar Corporate Vice President, Azure Data

We are pleased to share that Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud Database Management Systems. This placement reflects our ability to execute and our completeness of vision, and we feel is a testament to our ongoing innovation and the integration of a comprehensive data portfolio into Microsoft’s cloud data ecosystem.

AI + Machine Learning, Analytics, Azure Databricks, Thought leadership

Published December 1, 2021 • 4 min read

5 reasons Azure Databricks is best for Hadoop workloads

By Arindam Chatterjee Principal General Manager, Azure Databricks

Due to the complexity, high cost of operations, and unscalable infrastructure, on-premises Hadoop platforms have often not delivered on their initial promises to impact business value. As a result, many enterprises are now seeking to modernize their Hadoop platforms to cloud data platforms.

Analytics, Announcements, Management and Governance

Published November 3, 2021 • 4 min read

3 ways to enhance your cloud journey: break, prepare, and optimize your apps in Azure

By Omar Khan General Manager, Azure Product Marketing

At our Microsoft Ignite conference this week, we’re sharing new ways to continue to enhance your cloud adoption journey by announcing the preview of Azure Chaos Studio—a fully managed experimentation service to help you track, measure, and mitigate faults with controlled chaos engineering, systemically improving the resilience of your cloud applications. We continue to build a better, easier, and more comprehensive approach to guide your cloud environment preparation, with Azure landing zone, without losing sight of the application to be deployed.

Analytics, Announcements, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databases, Microsoft Purview

Published November 2, 2021 • 3 min read

Transform your business with Microsoft’s unrivaled end-to-end data platform

By Rohan Kumar Corporate Vice President, Azure Data

There are three core capabilities businesses need that together drive successful transformation: limitless database scale and performance, unmatched analytics and insights, and unified data governance. Today we shared a number of announcements to help organizations evolve rapidly even in the face of sustained uncertainty. Across industries, companies are investing in these core capabilities to ensure they have the flexibility to innovate anywhere and meet evolving business needs.

Analytics, Announcements, Azure Synapse Analytics

Published October 4, 2021 • 3 min read

Microsoft named a Leader in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for data integration tools

By Microsoft Azure

We are announcing that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. By leveraging Microsoft’s data integration tooling to combine disparate data sources, automate processes, and manage their data estates, our customers set the stage to deliver value to their teams through clear and actionable insights.

Analytics, Announcements, Management and Governance, Microsoft Purview

Published September 28, 2021 • 3 min read

Govern your data wherever it resides with Azure Purview

By Rohan Kumar Corporate Vice President, Azure Data

Today, we are excited to announce that Azure Purview is generally available. Every organization can now build a unified data governance solution to maximize the value of their data in the cloud.

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