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 ...

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’s platform-based approach to cloud development has allowed it to offer managed versions of many familiar elements of the tech stack, especially within its data platform. As well as its own ...

Microsoft Azure’s new, unified data platform aims to be your one-stop shop for analytics and machine learning at scale. Tracking the annual flurry of announcements at Microsoft Build is a good way to ...

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 ...