A decade ago, Ion Stoica and his colleagues at UC Berkeley's school of computing identified the roadblock to performing advanced analytics. The challenge at the time was what we then called Big Data.

At a Spark Summit 2017 conference this week, Databricks announced that it will be making an instance of the Apache Spark in-memory computing framework available as a managed cloud service running on ...

Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of its Cloud and AI Group, speaks at Microsoft Build 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Cloud customers are getting used to the idea of paying ...

The importance of databases to modern enterprise AI operations cannot be overstated. Data helps to train and ground AI, and multiple research reports show that without proper data, AI efforts tend to ...

Serverless computing can be a great fit for certain applications, but there are drawbacks to consider before jumping feet first into the serverless deep end. If you’ve been exposed to the world of ...

Microsoft provides all the needed tools for building serverless applications as well as Continuous Deployment tooling. Currently, there is support both in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. Besides ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service has had a rocky journey to where it is today. Its initial focus on delivering PaaS was clearly too early for the rest of the industry, and it was only a pivot to ...

Microsoft’s Event Grid is an important addition to Microsoft’s serverless options, providing the back end needed to build distributed applications that can work at scale, with minimal management and ...