Microsoft's latest cloud data warehouse release retains its decoupled compute-storage advantage, while crafting parity with Amazon Redshift's local storage performance.

At Microsoft's Inspire partner conference event in Washington, DC today, the Redmond, WA-based software giant announced some serious enhancements to its Azure SQL Data Warehouse. Just one year ...

Microsoft today announced a new service in its Azure database lineup during its Build developer conference keynote today. The Azure SQL Data Warehouse, which will go into public preview in June ...

Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft’s cloud-based data repository offering, is available as a limited preview, the company announced yesterday.

A new Azure SQL Data Warehouse preview offered as a counter to Amazon's Redshift headed several data-related announcements at the opening of the Microsoft Build conference today.

Billed as a database-as-a-service offering, Azure SQL Data Warehouse is Microsoft's enterprise-focused storage solution that scales both computing power and storage space based on need. According to ...

Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Microsoft’s Azure SQL Data Warehouse, the company’s cloud-based database service for big data workloads, is getting yet another speed bump today. A few months ago, the company sped up the ...

Microsoft's drive to put Azure SQL Data Warehouse on more equal footing with SQL Server is finally paying off.

The Azure SQL Data Warehouse allows users to store data at cloud-scale, and compute is scaled independently. Users can use the familiarity of T-SQL to easily query across relational and non-relational ...

Microsoft and its hardware partners on Monday rolled out preconfigured data warehouse reference architectures that incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008.