Microsoft shows off hybrid cloud management and cloud analytics tools at Ignite

Microsoft's Ignite event traditionally attracts more from the developer ranks, but the technologies on display are increasingly of relevance to CIOs developing cloud strategies today. At Ignite 2019 in Orlando last week, Microsoft unveiled a new approach to analytics and data warehousing, Azure Synapse Analytics, and a new way to run Azure data services in anyone's cloud, Azure Arc. Get the latest cloud computing insights by signing up for our newsletter. With Azure Synapse Analytics Microsoft takes its Azure SQL Data Warehouse and turns up the volume to handle petabytes of data in its cloud. Some of the features -- such as dynamic data masking and column- and row-level security to provide granular access control -- are already generally available, while others -- notably integrations with Apache Spark, Power BI and Azure Machine Learning -- are still in preview.