Microsoft’s strategy is clear: It’s betting heavily on its customers generating and storing data natively in Azure, and on creating a hybrid local/remote architecture for working with that data.

Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud is getting boosted with an array of data-focused updates, with expanded capabilities for its Intelligent Data Platform and new functions in its main database ...

Locking down AI pipelines in Azure? A zero-trust, metadata-driven setup makes it secure, scalable and actually team-friendly.

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 ...

Microsoft's cloud-hosted data sharing tools are for anyone who needs to work with big data.

Pachydermic Logo Trumpets Change. Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is bringing Hadoop to the Windows Azure cloud. The popular big-data analytics framework is now available on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure.

Microsoft will soon offer three additional ways for enterprises to store data on Azure, making the cloud computing platform more supportive of big data analysis.

At Inspire 2019 in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced a new service -- Azure Data Share -- designed to make sharing big data "easier" and "safer." ...

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 ...

Microsoft this week at the Microsoft TechEd Europe 2014 conference announced significant expansions to its portfolio of tools for managing and analyzing Big Data running on the Microsoft Azure cloud.