Microsoft has announced that both Gen2 of Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Explorer are now generally available. Furthermore, a preview of Mapping Data Flow in Data Factory is also live.

The announcement also includes several other updates to Microsoft's Azure data services offerings for enterprise customers.

Microsoft is readying a second version of its Azure Data Lake Storage service, bringing new capabilities to Azure Data Factory and adding two new Azure regions in China.

Microsoft today announced the general availability of Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2) — two services it says will afford Azure customers greater ...

Okera's Active Data Access Platform now helps secure and govern data lakes based on Azure Data Lake Storage.

Through the new integration, Power BI users can now connect an Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 account to Power BI, configure workspaces to store dataflow definition and data files in CDM folders in ...

The platform is also extending to four new regions - namely UK South, UK West, Australia East, and Australia South East - and supports the recently announced preview of Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.

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 may, ...

Microsoft also positions Blob as the storage element of data lakes and for big data analytics, with Blob storage providing capacity for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, for cloud-based analytics.

Unlimited Potential Azure Data Lake is particularly well suited for Costa’s vast amounts of nautical data, due to its unlimited file size limit. Unlike Amazon Web Services, for example, there is no ...