According to a press release penned by Rohan Kumar, Corporate Vice President of Azure Data, “The data landscape has changed rapidly over the past few years, enabling tremendous opportunity for enterprises to digitally transform. Data estates are increasingly diverse with fit-for-purpose systems (NoSQL, RDBMs, Data Lakes & Big Data, SaaS apps, etc.) spanning on-premises and […]
OpenAI Partners with Microsoft to Build New Azure AI Supercomputing Technologies
According to a new press release, “Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI, two companies thinking deeply about the role of AI in the world and how to build secure, trustworthy and ethical AI to serve the public, have partnered to further extend Microsoft Azure’s capabilities in large-scale AI systems. Through this partnership, the companies will accelerate breakthroughs […]
WANdisco and Neudesic Partner to Migrate Hadoop Analytical Workloads to Databricks
A recent press release states, “WANdisco, the LiveData company, and Neudesic, a nationally recognized business and technology consulting firm, announced a partnership to accelerate the migration of data and analytics workloads to Microsoft Azure Cloud and in particular to Delta Lake, an open source data layer that brings reliability to data lakes. Delta Lake provides […]
DXC Technology Launches Microsoft Azure Digital Transformation Practice
A recent press release reports, “DXC Technology, the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, today announced the expansion of its strategic partnership with Microsoft through the formation of a global Microsoft Azure Digital Transformation Practice to accelerate client migration to the Microsoft Azure public cloud with greater efficiency and agility. Organizations are increasingly seeking […]
Hexaware Launches Automated Cloud Transformation Platform for Microsoft Azure
A recent press release, “Hexaware, one of the fastest growing next-gen provider of IT services, has launched cloud transformation platform Cloud Enterprise Data Management and Analytics (EDMA) for taking on-premise data warehouse and analytics ecosystem to Microsoft Azure. The collaboration will enable businesses to reduce the time and efforts in the entire transformation cycle by […]
Okera Expands Data Lake Security and Governance Platform
A recent press release reports, “Okera, a leading active data management company for data lake security and governance, today announced it has expanded support for its award-winning data access management platform to include Microsoft Azure Data Lakes based on Microsoft Azure. Currently in use at Fortune 500 companies, Okera’s solution for unified data lake security […]
AtScale Accelerates Cloud Data Transformation for Global Enterprises
According to a new press release, “AtScale, the data warehouse virtualization company, today announced the release of AtScale 2019.1. The platform update introduces native multi-dimensional support for Microsoft Power BI, data warehouse platform support for Teradata and PostgreSQL, a software development kit (SDK) for accelerated on-boarding of enterprise data platforms including Oracle and advanced query […]
Microsoft and General Assembly Launch Partnership to Close Global AI Skills Gap
According to a recent press release, “Microsoft Corp. and global education provider General Assembly (GA) on Friday announced a partnership to close skills gaps in the rapidly growing fields of artificial intelligence (AI), cloud and data engineering, machine learning, data science, and more. This initiative will create standards and credentials for AI skills, upskill and […]
J.P. Morgan and Microsoft Announce Partnership to Drive Enterprise Adoption of Quorum
A recent press release states, “J.P. Morgan and Microsoft on Thursday announced they have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of enterprise blockchain. Through this partnership, Quorum, developed by J.P. Morgan, will become the first distributed ledger platform available through Azure Blockchain Service, enabling J.P. Morgan and […]
Dell Technologies and Microsoft Expand Partnership
According to a recent press release, “Dell Technologies and Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced they are expanding their partnership to address a wider range of customer needs and help accelerate digital transformations. Through this collaboration, the companies will deliver a fully native, supported, and certified VMware cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure. Additionally, joint Microsoft 365 […]