Today is a pretty big day for advanced analytics on the Azure cloud, marked by a virtual event titled "Shape Your Future with Azure Data and Analytics," which will feature Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Hyperscale cloud services such as Azure are designed to work with large amounts of data, taking advantage of their economies of scale when purchasing storage hardware. Their close relationship with ...

Perhaps the headliner is Azure Synapse Analytics, a service now in preview that leverages on-demand or provisioned resources to ingest, prepare, manage, and serve data for business intelligence and AI ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The idea here is that Synapse allows anybody working with data in those disparate places to manage and analyze it from within a ...

Azure Synapse Analytics was first revealed by Microsoft in November 2019, at its Ignite conference in Orlando, back when we still had live events. With just a few months to go until its first birthday ...