Microsoft offers an array of options for data analytics in its cloud that are meant to operate together as a full analytics stack. Here is an overview of the core services and where each fits. If you ...

Get ready to scale out SQL Azure databases beyond today's 50GB limit with the Transact-SQL and ADO.NET elastic sharding features, which are coming in the 2011 SQL Azure Federation Community Technology ...

After a nearly ten-month-long preview and years of limping along with the underpowered Azure Data Catalog service, Microsoft is finally entering the data governance prime time today, with general ...