Microsoft To Offer Three New Ways To Store Big Data On Azure
Azure will have a data warehouse service, a “data lake” service storing large amounts of data, and an option for running “elastic” databases that can store sets of data that vary greatly in size, explained Scott Guthrie, Microsoft executive vice president of the cloud and enterprise group, who unveiled these new services at the company’s Build 2015 developer conference, held this week in San Francisco. The Azure SQL Data Warehouse, available later this year, will give organizations a way to store petabytes of data so it can be easily ingested by data analysis software, such as the company’s Power BI tool for data visualization, the Azure Data Factory for data orchestration, or the Azure Machine Learning service....