Azure SQL Data Warehouse is a fast, flexible and secure analytics platform for enterprises of all sizes. Today we announced significant query performance improvements for Azure SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW) customers enabled through enhancements in the distributed query execution layer. Analytics workload performance is determined by two major factors, I/O bandwidth to storage and […]

As the amount of data grows exponentially, the pressure to quickly harness it for insights to share across the organization also increases rapidly. As Microsoft continues to evolve our analytics portfolio, we are committed to delivering a data warehouse solution that provides a fast, flexible, and secure analytics platform in the cloud. Today we are […]

Apache Spark 2.3.0 is now available for production use on the managed big data service Azure HDInsight. Ranging from bug fixes (more than 1400 tickets were fixed in this release) to new experimental features, Apache Spark 2.3.0 brings advancements and polish to all areas of its unified data platform. Data engineers relying on Python UDFs […]

Sensors, IoT devices, social networks, and online transactions are all generating data that needs to be monitored constantly and acted on quickly. As a result, the need for large-scale, real-time stream processing is more evident now than ever before. With Azure Databricks running on top of Spark, Spark Streaming enables data scientists and data engineers […]

At Microsoft Build 2017, we introduced a set of user behavior analytics tools for Application Insights as a preview. Since then, we’ve listened to your feedback, adding additional capabilities and squashing bugs. We’ve also used these user behavior analytics tools on themselves, finding opportunities to improve your experience without you even having to ask! With […]

Now in preview Azure Event Hubs and Service Bus VNET Service Endpoints in public preview – Azure Event Hubs and Service Bus joins the growing list of Azure services enabled for Virtual Network Service Endpoints. Virtual Network (VNet) service endpoints extend your virtual network private address space and the identity of your VNet to the […]

We continue to expand the Azure Marketplace ecosystem. From June 1 to 15, 21 new offers successfully met the onboarding criteria and went live. See details of the new offers below: A10 Lightning ADC with Harmony Controller – SaaS: Gain cloud-native load balancing, advanced traffic management, central policy management, application security, per-application traffic visibility, analytics, […]

How can retail banks generate curated experiences? Learn from retailers. They use a cloud platform that orchestrates experiences from omni-channels to devices using data collected from various touchpoints. The data is combined and analyzed with Microsoft Azure Machine Learning technology. With these technologies, retailers can now understand the shopping behavior of a customer and offer […]

Today we're excited to announce Azure Cosmos DB Explorer, a full screen standalone web-based version of the Data Explorer many of you already use in Azure Portal for Cosmos DB. With Cosmos DB Explorer you can: Take advantage of the full screen real estate for your queries and results. Access your database account and collections […]

For scenarios in which Azure Event Hubs or Azure Service Bus is only accessible from certain well-known sites, the IP Filter feature enables you to configure rules for accepting or rejecting traffic originated from specify IP addresses, for instance the addresses that come under corporate NAT gateway. The Azure team is happy to announce the […]