Microsoft is working on another new Azure service focused on helping users deal with big data. That service, known as Azure Data Factory, is meant to allow users to consolidate a number of Microsoft ...

Microsoft has opened up to testers another new Azure service: Azure Data Factory. Azure Data Factory, which I blogged about back in September, is a service designed to allow developers to integrate ...

In much the same way that Microsoft brought spreadsheet crunching to the business world through its now-ubiquitous Excel, the company is hoping to make a similar impact with big data analysis with its ...

For some time Microsoft didn’t offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which ...