Advancing Analytics

MAY 17, 2023

What is Microsoft Fabric? Fabric is Microsoft’s shiny new all-encompassing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) analytics platform. With Fabric, Microsoft are ambitiously embracing the Data Lakehouse architecture in a Mesh-like vision. Data can be stored once and used where it is.

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Advancing Analytics

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Last week was Microsoft’s Ignite conference hosted in Seattle and we were on the edge of our seats for some highly anticipated announcements. We’ve been playing and helping shape Fabric through the preview and into the Public Preview announced at Build earlier in the year so it’s great to see Fabric is now generally available.

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Advancing Analytics

AUGUST 18, 2023

Does it really matter what you call your artifacts when you create them in a Fabric Workspace? In Azure infrastructure land there have been many words dedicated to this topic, with Microsoft even providing a formal guide. I’ve always found it infuriating that these rules can vary across Microsoft products.

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Advancing Analytics

MAY 25, 2023

Fabric is Microsoft’s brand-new SaaS analytics platform just announced at their Build conference. We think there are some great features in Fabric so in this blog post we want to highlight our top 10. ONELAKE OneLake is at the heart of Fabric and with it comes the ability to store data in Delta Lake format.

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Advancing Analytics

MAY 25, 2023

Fabric is Microsoft’s brand-new SaaS analytics platform just announced at their Build conference. We think there are some great features in Fabric so in this blog post we want to highlight our top 10. ONELAKE OneLake is at the heart of Fabric and with it comes the ability to store data in Delta Lake format.

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Advancing Analytics

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Introduction Fabric is Microsoft’s recently announced SaaS all-in-one analytics platform. To learn more about Fabric, check out our previous blogs: What is Microsoft Fabric? Models in Fabric can be registered and will appear as an artifact allowing easy evaluation and versioning for batch inferencing.

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Advancing Analytics

JUNE 7, 2023

OneLake is the OneDrive for data and like OneDrive, OneLake is provisioned automatically with every Fabric tenant with no infrastructure to manage.” Its automatic provisioning for every Fabric tenant and ability to provide unified data storage across Azure, Amazon and more makes it a practical choice for data management.

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Advancing Analytics

JULY 12, 2023

It’s really easy to get started with Microsoft Fabric. We first need to think about how Fabric is structured. What’s the hierarchy of artifacts and containers inside Fabric and what does each layer mean? What’s the hierarchy of artifacts and containers inside Fabric and what does each layer mean?

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Advancing Analytics

JANUARY 15, 2024

Fabric has been in general availability for a couple of months now, I posted this blog before the Xmas and pretty much the second it was posted there was an update to Fabric concurrency! It shows that Microsoft are behind this product and improving it all the time. Feel free to contact us if you want to know more!

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Advancing Analytics

DECEMBER 18, 2023

If you keep up with the latest developments in the data space, you will probably know that Microsoft Fabric has now reached general availability. While it clearly still needs some more features it seems like Microsoft are fully behind Fabric and it will be an important product for them going forward. What is capacity?

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Advancing Analytics

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

AI was the very first thing mentioned in Satya Nadella’s opening keynote of Microsoft Ignite 2023, dominating over 50% of the sessions, and with Gen-AI at its peak, that has been no surprise. A key element of Microsoft Fabric, OneLake streamlines data management by consolidating data into a single copy, effectively dismantling data silos.

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Advancing Analytics

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Data Activator is the newest experience to be added to Microsoft’s unified Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform Fabric, having been made available in the public preview at the beginning of October. Currently we also have a Fabric POC offering, which you can check out here. But what is it? What does it do? How can you use it?

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 21, 2023

With Equinix’s global fabric of interconnections, this provides high-performance, low-latency connectivity for cloud-based applications to access and process data residing on Platform Equinix.

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 3, 2022

Cloud adjacency results from the infrastructure, typically enterprise-class storage arrays, connected to a server instance at a hyperscaler cloud service provider, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure, via a fast and low-latency interconnection link such as Azure ExpressRoute.

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 15, 2024

The landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, reshaping industries, societies, and the very fabric of our daily lives. Instead, it’s woven into the fabric of business processes, from customer relationship management (CRM) to supply chain optimization.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Data Mesh vs. Data Fabric: What’s the Difference? Data mesh and data fabric are two distinct approaches to managing data and making data and insights accessible to business teams and individual users who need to work with that data for the benefit of the organization. It provides more of a user-centric approach to data management.

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Solutions Review

JANUARY 25, 2024

Our own team of researchers at Menlo Security found more than 10,000 incidents of file uploads into generative AI platforms including ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, and Google Bard, and 3,400 instances of blocked “copy and paste” attempts by employees due to company policies around the circulation of sensitive information.

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Solutions Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Our own team of researchers at Menlo Security found more than 10,000 incidents of file uploads into generative AI platforms including ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, and Google Bard, and 3,400 instances of blocked “copy and paste” attempts by employees due to company policies around the circulation of sensitive information.

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Solutions Review

JANUARY 28, 2024

Our own team of researchers at Menlo Security found more than 10,000 incidents of file uploads into generative AI platforms including ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, and Google Bard, and 3,400 instances of blocked “copy and paste” attempts by employees due to company policies around the circulation of sensitive information.

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