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6 things you should know about Azure Data Lake Storage

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 credits: https://www.optisolbusiness.com/insight/6-things-you-should-know-about-azure-data-lake 1) What is Azure Data Lake storage? It’s the enterprise wise repository for big data analytics workloads. Data stored can be of any type and any size. A single store for all data All ranges of data can be stored such as raw data to the highly transformed data Azure Data Lake Store  is a no-limit cloud  Data Lake  built so enterprises can unlock value from unstructured, semi-structured, and structured  data. Azure Data Lake Analytics  is a cloud analytics service for developing and running massively parallel data transformation and processing programs in U-SQL, R, Python, and .NET over petabytes of data Azure HDInsight  is a cloud service that allows cost-effective data processing using open-source frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Storm, and Kafka, among others. 2) How Azure Data Lake works? Ingest all data regardless of the requirement Store all data...

Microsoft Power Platform — An Overview

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  credits:   https://www.optisolbusiness.com/insight/microsoft-power-platform-an-overview Foster innovation across your organization by giving everyone the ability to analyze data, build solutions, automate processes, and create chatbots. The Microsoft Power Platform is more than the sum of its parts. Connect them together — and to Office 365, Dynamics 365, Azure, and hundreds of other apps — and build end-to-end business solutions. Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and the Power P l atform on top of what we’re doing with Azure is the core of what we are doing as a company vis-à-vis I would say our commercial customers — businesses of all sizes, whether it’s a small business, large business, whether it’s in an emerging market or in a developed market — says CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft Power Platform   is an inclusive technology. Its ease of use creates a culture of innovation, helping you realize the untapped value you couldn’t access before. With Power Platform, you’re not j...

Serverless Computing — Why it matters for enterprises?

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  The Server Story: I grew up in the age of terms such as  “Mainframe — Minicomputers — Ethernet Cable — Main Computer — Terminal Location — Floppy Disks” . These terms may sound ancient to many and for the millennials, most of these terms can be related to things displayed at museums. In the ’90s, my office had a separate room with b i g routers and switches, servers, server clusters, storage gear, etc. The admins handling the servers slept most of the days in the same room. If there was an issue on the server-side (or) a downtime it was an “all hell breaks loose” scenario. Not just once, it is the same scenario and situation every time if there is a downtime/server issue. I have witnessed people running from pillar to post to get the issue fixed as soon as possible and get the server up and running since every second of downtime was costing us and clients thousands of dollars. Thanks to the Technology advancements and innovations! These scenarios are no longer part of most o...