Earlier this year, in May, Microsoft introduced a number of new features for its Azure Analytics and database space. As part of these, Azure Data Factory (ADF) also got some new capabilities. For ...

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Microsoft continues to bolster its Azure data services offerings for enterprise users with its announcement that Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Azure Data Explorer are now generally available for ...

Azure Data Factory (ADF) is a powerful data integration service from Microsoft Azure, enabling organizations to orchestrate and automate data flows across a wide array of cloud and on-premises ...

The goal of Gen2 - beyond ensuring the expected performance improvements - was to make Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) more compatible with the Apache ecosystem. Now, because ADLS is built on top of ...

Feb. 7, 2019 — In a blog post today, Jurgen Willis (Director of Product Management, Azure Engineering) announced updates to three Azure Data Services. The blog post is included below. [We’re] pleased ...

In response to developer feedback, Microsoft is taking a page from the growing visual, low-code development approach to simplify Big Data analytics in the cloud with Azure Data Factory. The new visual ...

The second major version of Azure Data Factory, Microsoft's cloud service for ETL (Extract, Transform and Load), data prep and data movement, was released to general availability (GA) about two months ...

As businesses gather, store and analyze an ever-increasing amount of data, tools for helping them discover, catalog, track and manage how that data is shared are also becoming increasingly important.