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 ...

Today is a pretty big day for advanced analytics on the Azure cloud, marked by a virtual event titled "Shape Your Future with Azure Data and Analytics," which will feature Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

As businesses gather, store and analyze an ever-increasing amount of data, tools for helping them discover, catalog, track and manage how that data is shared are also becoming increasingly important.

Microsoft today unveiled Azure Purview, a new data governance solution in public preview. Additionally, the company announced that Azure Synapse Analytics is now generally available. Azure Purview ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Last December, Microsoft announced the launch of Azure Purview, a unified ...

Data is valuable. It’s the lifeblood of a modern business, underpinning everything you do. That means you need to control it, if only to stay compliant with regulations and to avoid hefty fines after ...

The company also announced general availability for the Azure Synapse data warehousing and analytics service. Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a “unified data governance service” as part of its Azure ...

Microsoft has largely left tools for data governance to independent software providers (ISPs) and partners in their ecosystem. (Full disclosure—I am employed by an ISP that sells a product in this ...

The shift to a hybrid workplace has forced organizations to rapidly adopt cloud technologies and remote access tools to enable ubiquitous connectivity. That in turn has generated more data than ever ...

GDPR and CCPA brought home to many businesses the realization that if you don't know what data you have, where it's stored, who's got access to it and where it's being moved to, you are accepting an ...