New Azure Data Factory self-paced hands-on lab for UI
Announcing a new self-paced hands-on Lab for the Azure Data Factory UI to visually build scale-out data pipelines in the cloud using ADF V2.
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Azure Data Factory: Visual Tools enabled in public preview
ADF v2 public preview was announced at Microsoft Ignite on Sep 25, 2017.
Azure HDInsight Performance Benchmarking: Interactive Query, Spark and Presto
Fast SQL query processing at scale is often key consideration for our customers.
Announcing Apache Kafka for Azure HDInsight general availability
Apache Kafka on the Azure HDInsight platform was added last year as a preview service to help enterprises create real-time big data pipelines.
Run your PySpark Interactive Query and batch job in Visual Studio Code
We are excited to introduce the integration of HDInsight PySpark into Visual Studio Code (VSCode), which allows developers to easily edit Python scripts and submit PySpark statements to HDInsight clusters.
Technical reference implementation for enterprise BI and reporting
We are happy to announce the technical reference implementation of an enterprise grade infrastructure to help accelerate the deployment of a BI and reporting solution to augment your data science and…
Cray Supercomputers are coming to Azure
I’m thrilled to share our new partnership with Cray that will provide our customer unprecedented access to supercomputing capabilities in Azure to solve their toughest challenges in climate modeling, precision medicine, energy, manufacturing, and other scientific research.
Get insights into your Azure #CosmosDB: partition heatmaps, OMS, and more
Today we’re announcing several metrics to help you get the most out of the provisioned throughput, as well as integration of our metrics with the Azure Monitor, and a preview of diagnostics logs for data operations, integrated with OMS.
Faster compute optimized performance tier for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
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.
New in Stream Analytics: Output to Azure Functions, built-in anomaly detection, etc.
Today at Microsoft Ignite, we are pleased to announce the preview of several new and compelling capabilities in Azure Stream Analytics.
Events, Data Points, and Messages – Choosing the right Azure messaging service for your data
With the introduction of Event Grid, Microsoft Azure now offers an even greater choice of messaging infrastructure options.
Using Azure Analysis Services with Azure Data Lake Store
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!