4 Benefits of Making Power BI Part of Your Digital Transformation
4 Benefits of Making Power BI Part of Your Digital Transformation There was a time when business intelligence tools were costly in [...]
Ready to Kick SQL Server Clusters to the Curb? The Latest Microsoft SLA Can Help
Did you know you can now run a stand-alone SQL Server virtual machine in production—and that Microsoft will provide you with a Service-Level Agreement (SLA)? With the recent changes that [...]
5 Reasons Your Data Warehouse Belongs in Microsoft Azure
By now, you’ve probably heard chatter about Microsoft SQL Data Warehouse (SQL DW), but what is it? And why should you be using it? Well, to start, it’s a cloud-based, scale-out database capable of processing massive volumes of data
The Seven Coolest Features of Azure SQL Database and SQL Data Warehouse
Relational database-as-a-service is one of Microsoft Azure’s biggest differentiators when compared to other public cloud vendors. There are many PaaS database options available in the market today, but no other [...]
Add Predictive Power to IoT with Azure Machine Learning
In my last blog post, I talked about Azure Event Hubs and Stream Analytics and how they enable real-time workflow triggering and alerts for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. This [...]
The Killer IoT Combo – Azure Event Hubs & Stream Analytics
If you want to get started with real-time analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) today, there are two key capabilities you need: the ability to ingest data from your [...]
Azure Data Lake – Get Ready to Dive In
Of all the new Azure analytics goodies that Microsoft unveiled at its Build 2015 developer conference, the Azure Data Lake service is among those that I’m especially excited about. In [...]