The goal of Gen2 - beyond ensuring the expected performance improvements - was to make Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) more compatible with the Apache ecosystem. Now, because ADLS is built on top of ...

Okera, which offers a centralized security, governance and access solution for data lakes and data warehouses, has announced support for data lakes on the Microsoft Azure cloud. While Amazon Web ...

Microsoft's Azure platform looks like, at first glance, a bewildering array of services and features, many of which have been recently updated including Azure Stream Analytics, SQL Database, Container ...

Microsoft is making a preview release of its second generation version of its Azure Data Lake Storage Service. Calling the "Gen2" version a "no-compromise data lake," Microsoft officials announced the ...

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Microsoft today announced that Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) for Azure Storage now also allows customers to protect data stored in Azure Files file shares and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 API data ...

Microsoft on Monday announced that Azure Data Lake Store, a new HDFS-compatible Hadoop File System data store, will be available later this year. Microsoft describes the Azure Data Lake Store as a ...

Azure Data Lake and Stream Analytics Tools for Visual Studio (version 2.4), which is a plugin for local U-SQL and Azure Data Lake development. Once you install this, relevant Azure Data Lake Analytics ...