Last week Microsoft released a public preview of a new service called Azure Archive Blob Storage, offering customers a lower-cost cloud storage solution for rarely accessed data. This allows for storage tiering, where organizations can place their critical data on expensive, … Continue reading →
Data virtualization goes by a lot of different names: logical data warehouse, data federation, virtual database, and decentralized data warehouse. Data virtualization allows you to integrate data from various sources, keeping the data in-place, so that you can generate reports … Continue reading →
I previously blogged about Microsoft certification changes, and since then there have been some new Microsoft Big Data certifications exams released: Already live: 70-773: Analyzing Big Data with Microsoft R 70-774: Perform Cloud Data Science with Azure Machine Learning 70-775: Perform … Continue reading →
Microsoft has released a preview of the Azure Analysis Services web designer. This is a browser-based experience that will allow developers to start creating and managing Azure Analysis Services (AAS) semantic models quickly and easily. SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) … Continue reading →