Microsoft has announced that both Gen2 of Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Explorer are now generally available. Furthermore, a preview of Mapping Data Flow in Data Factory is also live.

Microsoft is readying a second version of its Azure Data Lake Storage service, bringing new capabilities to Azure Data Factory and adding two new Azure regions in China.

Microsoft's Apache Spark-based analytics platform has now gotten a series of enhancements centered around big data service integrations, while also expanding its availability to four new regions.

Microsoft today announced that Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2) are generally available for Azure customers.

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is built for data analytics and is the most comprehensive data lake available, wrote Willis.

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 integrates HDFS and cloud object storage, enabling businesses to run big data analytics without moving data.

Together with support for Delta Lake on Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen2, also announced today, Fivetran customers now have two Microsoft data lake destinations to securely consolidate their ...

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