In our data outlook for 2022, we posed the question of whether data clouds -- or cloud computing in general -- get easier this year. Our question was directed at the bewildering array of cloud ...

Today to kick off Spark Summit, Databricks announced a Serverless Platform for Apache Spark — welcome news for developers looking to reduce time spent on cluster management. The move to simplify ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Extending its reach in the cloud, Microsoft Corp. today announced its Azure Event Grid service is now generally available. The service is a key part of the company’s strategy for serverless computing, ...

Continuous data platform provider Iguazio Systems Ltd. is getting into the serverless computing game. The startup, which sells a real-time data analytics platform for applications, is launching an ...

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 ...

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 ...