- 95% of Fortune 500 companies use Microsoft Azure. Microsoft has 61 Azure data regions around the world, while they added new regions in Israel, Mexico, Poland, and New Zealand.
- Azure Synapse Link is a new Microsoft tool that enables data analysis on live operational data. Businesses will use the same database system for transactional and analytical workloads on a single system.
- Read more about Microsoft Azure and its business tools in our Windows Azure section.
- For all the news from this year’s Build event, check out our Microsoft Build 2020 Hub.
According to Microsoft, 95% of Fortune 500 companies use Microsoft Azure. Right now, Microsoft has 61 Data Azure regions around the world, while they added new regions in Israel, Mexico, Poland, and New Zealand.
What is Azure Synapse Link?
Azure Synapse Link is a new Microsoft tool that enables data analysis on live operational data. Essentially, it allows companies to use the same database system for transactional and analytical workloads in a single system.
Synapse Link is based on Synaps Analytics, which Microsoft announced last year and takes it one step further.
They removed the barriers between Azure operational databases and Synapse Analytics, so companies can immediately benefit from the data in the databases without going through a data warehouse in the first place.
If you’re saying Azure Synapse Link, you’re saying big data management because according to Microsoft, Synapse can query data at the petabyte scale, driven by lines of SQL.
When does Synapse Link make its appearance?
Azure Synapse Link will launch in the coming weeks along with the new Azure Synapse features in preview and Project Cortex.
What we announced with Synapse Link is the next important step in the same vision we had around reducing comprehension time.
And in this particular case, a long-standing barrier that exists today between operational databases and analytical systems is these complex ETL (extract, transform, load) pipelines that need to be configured just so you can do basic operational reporting.
