Azure Synapse uses a massively parallel processing architecture ideal for enterprise data warehousing, while Databricks leverages Spark’s in-memory processing for real-time analytics and AI ...

Microsoft introduces Azure Boost DPU to handle data-centric workloads Specifically for Azure, integrates compute, storage, and networking Custom hardware-software design boosts efficiency, lowers ...

The Azure Boost DPU is Microsoft’s first data processing unit, designed for “data-centric workloads with high efficiency and low power,” the company said.

Microsoft is making it harder for cyber-attackers to steal data from its cloud customers and invade their privacy with a new suite of services and features called Azure Confidential Computing, the ...

Microsoft's HDInsight Hadoop-on-Azure service is getting Apache Storm real-time analytics support in preview form. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor Oct. 15, 2014, 7:00 a.m. PT ...