Microsoft is open-sourcing its cloud-compression algorithm and optimized hardware implementation for cloud storage. Microsoft is contributing that algorithm, known as ""=""> plus the associated ...

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 ...

International Data Corp. estimates that the total volume of digital information in the world will balloon from 33 zettabytes, or trillion gigabytes, today to 175 zettabytes in 2025. This rapid growth ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Open the Planetary Computer data catalog and you will find all kinds of useful data: from decades’ worth of satellite imagery to biomass maps, from the US Census to fire data. All together, there are ...

When it comes to improving the performance of database systems, there are nearly as many approaches as there are DBA (database administrator) teams. That might sound acceptable at first glance. But, ...