The flexibility of data lakes, combined with the variety and vast amount of their stored data, makes them ideal for advanced analytics.

A data lake is essentially a single data repository that holds all your data until it is ready for analysis, or possibly only the data that doesn’t fit into your data warehouse.

What is a data lake? Some mistakenly believe that a data lake is just the 2.0 version of a data warehouse. While they are similar, they are different tools that should be used for different purposes.

Microsoft this week released Azure Data Lake as a generally available, production-ready service.

The announcement also includes several other updates to Microsoft's Azure data services offerings for enterprise customers.

Ignite 2019: Microsoft has revved its Azure SQL Data Warehouse, re-branding it Synapse Analytics, and integrating Apache Spark, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Factory, with a unified Web ...

Microsoft has just revealed that support for Azure Data Lake Store has been added to its online analytics processing engine, Azure Analysis Services, as well as SQL Server Data Tools.

It is built around a data lake called OneLake, and brings together new and existing components from Microsoft Power BI, Azure Synapse, and Azure Data Factory into a single integrated environment.

Microsoft had its sights set squarely on big data when it introduced its Azure Data Lake earlier this year, and on Monday it broadened that effort with new tools designed to make big data ...

Okera's Active Data Access Platform now helps secure and govern data lakes based on Azure Data Lake Storage.