These days, every Microsoft conference is a data event, and Microsoft's latest Ignite virtual event, which kicks off today, is no exception. With enough data and ML announcements to go around, I'll ...

Microsoft Azure Purview, first introduced in December 2020, is a cloud PaaS that provides a unified view of data sources across an organization. Orchestras rehearse so that every musician plays in ...

GDPR and CCPA brought home to many businesses the realization that if you don't know what data you have, where it's stored, who's got access to it and where it's being moved to, you are accepting an ...

After a nearly ten-month-long preview and years of limping along with the underpowered Azure Data Catalog service, Microsoft is finally entering the data governance prime time today, with general ...

Microsoft has largely left tools for data governance to independent software providers (ISPs) and partners in their ecosystem. (Full disclosure—I am employed by an ISP that sells a product in this ...

Microsoft’s cloud data catalog service should be at the heart of your compliance tooling. Data is valuable. It’s the lifeblood of a modern business, underpinning everything you do. That means you need ...

The company also announced general availability for the Azure Synapse data warehousing and analytics service. Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a “unified data governance service” as part of its Azure ...