Updated: January 2, 2024 (January 2, 2024)

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Rob Sanfilippo

Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Rob worked at Microsoft for 14 years where he designed technologies for Microsoft products and... more

Azure offers several services that help process large data sets (Big Data) and extract information for reporting and analytic applications. Synapse Analytics builds on the former SQL Data Warehouse service, adding analytics capabilities. Fabric is a data and analytics cloud service that simplifies the deployment and use Synapse Analytics, Data Factory, and Power BI. Azure Data Lake includes a storage service and an Analytics component.

Azure Machine Learning simplifies the application of algorithms to data sets to predict trends and future outcomes and classify data. Other Azure services facilitate ingesting high-volume event streams (such as those coming from large populations of sensors) and processing them in real time. Databricks is based on a third-party offering that provides analytics, orchestration, and collaboration tools for creating and operating machine learning applications.

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