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Microsoft today announced Azure Data Lake, a new data repository for big data analytics workloads, during its Build developer conference keynote. The idea behind Data Lake is — as the name implies — ...

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 ...

Microsoft this week released Azure Data Lake as a generally available (GA), production-ready service, backed by Microsoft's 99.9 percent service-level agreement. Azure Data Lake is a service for "Big ...

While Microsoft announced plans for its Azure Data Lake service in April at its Build conference, it wasn't until today that company officials made clear what would power its coming enterprise-wide ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Microsoft's Apache Spark-based analytics platform has now gotten a series of enhancements centered around big data service integrations, while also expanding its availability to four new regions. Back ...

Microsoft on Monday announced that Azure Data Lake Store, a new HDFS-compatible Hadoop File System data store, will be available later this year. Microsoft describes the Azure Data Lake Store as a ...

Dremio and its eponymous platform have always been focused on high-performance data virtualization. Such platforms are centralized brokers that connect to and query multiple data sources on a user's ...

Azure Data Lake and Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio (version 2.4), which is a plugin for local U-SQL and Azure Data Lake development. Once you install this, relevant Azure Data Lake Analytics ...

There's a new buzzword on the loose, the "data lake." At first glance, a data lake could be easily mistaken for a data warehouse. The two big data concepts have a common focus on analytics and they ...