Microsoft yesterday announced major enhancements to its cloud data warehouse offering. Microsoft Corporate Vice President for Azure Data, Rohan Kumar, gave me the skinny in a private briefing in New ...

Microsoft Corporation has announced SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse, a new set of reference architectures for data warehousing that will help eliminate many of the barriers companies ...

Microsoft is responding to the “Big Data” movement by adding support for the open-source Hadoop framework for large-scale data processing to its SQL Server database and Parallel Data Warehouse ...

SQL DW is doing very well for Microsoft, not just in revenue terms, but also in terms of hearts and minds. Through upgrades to its storage model and query optimization facilities, SQL DW has gone from ...

This week Microsoft announced the first step in its Project Madison strategy by releasing reference architectures through its SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse. Hardware vendors HP, Dell and Bull ...