Author: Rohan Kumar

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. The world of data changes at a rapid pace, with more and more data being projected to be stored and processed at the edge. Microsoft has enabled enterprises with the capability of adopting a common programming surface area in their data centers with Microsoft SQL Server and in the cloud with Azure SQL Database. We note that latency, data governance and network connectivity continue to gravitate data compute needs towards the edge. New sensors and chip innovation with analytical capabilities at a lower cost enable more edge compute scenarios to drive higher agility ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. Digital disruption has created unlimited potential for companies to embrace data as a competitive advantage for their business. As a result, analytics continues to be a key priority for enterprises. When it comes to analytics, customers tell us that they need a solution that provides them with the best price, performance, security, and privacy, as well as a system that can easily deliver powerful insights across the organization. Azure has them covered. Analytics in Azure provides unparalleled performance at incredible value, not only in one, but two independent benchmark reports. Additionally, as illustrated ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. In today’s data-driven world, driving digital transformation increasingly depends on our ability to manage massive amounts of data and harness its potential. Developers who are building intelligent and immersive applications should not have to be constrained by resource limitations that ultimately impact their customers’ experience. Unfortunately, resource limits are an inescapable reality for application developers. Almost every developer can recall a time of when database compute, storage and memory limitations impacted an application’s performance. The consequences are real; from the time and cost spent compensating for platform limitations, to higher latency of usability, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. We are truly at a unique tipping point in the history of technology. The pace of growth is more rapid than ever before, with estimates of more than 150B connected devices and data growth up to 175 Zettabytes by 20251. With the dramatic acceleration of digitization, the primary question we now face is how to take advantage of the data and capabilities at our fingertips to help our companies and communities transform. We see a massive opportunity powered by the intelligent cloud and intelligent edge. The intelligent cloud is ubiquitous computing at massive ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. Organizations around the world are gearing up for a future powered by data, cloud, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). This week at Spark + AI Summit Europe, I talked about how Microsoft is committed to delivering cutting-edge innovations that help our customers navigate these technological and business shifts. The driving force behind powerful AI applications is data – and getting the most out of AI requires a modern data estate. Organizations are using their data to extract important insights to drive their businesses forward and engage their customers in ways that were simply not ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. Hello VLDB attendees! Welcome to Rio De Janeiro. I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you some of the exciting work in data that’s going on in the Azure Data team at Microsoft, and to invite you to take a closer look. Microsoft has long been a leader in database management with SQL Server, recognized as the top DBMS by Gartner for the past three years in a row. The emergence of the cloud and edge as the new frontiers for computing, and thus data management, is an exciting direction—data is ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. I am extremely honored to be delivering the keynote next week at the Data Platform Summit (DPS) in Bangalore. DPS is one of the events that I am looking forward to participating in as it will provide me with a pulse on data and analytics in the Asia Pacific region. More importantly, the event gives me a chance to connect with you — our customers, partners, and overall community. As a preface, I want to share with you some of the exciting work happening on the Azure Data team at Microsoft and invite ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. Hello SIGMOD attendees! Welcome to Houston, and to what is shaping up to be a great conference.  I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you some of the exciting work in data that’s going on in the Azure Data team at Microsoft, and to invite you to take a closer look. Microsoft has long been a leader in database management with SQL Server, recognized as the top DBMS by Gartner for the past three years in a row.  The emergence of the cloud and edge as the new frontiers for computing, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. The confluence of cloud, data, and AI is foundational to innovation and is driving unprecedented change. This week at Spark + AI Summit, I talked about how Microsoft enables organizations to take advantage of Azure to build advanced machine learning models and intelligent applications virtually anywhere. As Satya mentioned during our Build conference last month, applications will increasingly require a ubiquitous computing fabric from the cloud to the edge. These applications also require new machine learning and AI capabilities that enable them to see, hear and predict. The driving force behind these capabilities ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. Data is transformative. The ability to turn data into breakthrough insights is foundational to remain relevant in an increasingly competitive market. To help our customers deliver fast insights from exponentially growing data, today we are announcing the general availability of the Compute Optimized Gen2 tier of Azure SQL Data Warehouse. With this performance optimized tier, we are bringing the best of Microsoft software and hardware innovations to dramatically accelerate query performance and concurrency for our customers. Fast, flexible, and secure cloud data warehouse We launched Azure SQL Data Warehouse three years ago to ... Read More