Today I'm excited to give the Day 1 keynote at PASS Summit v.20, a gathering of our longtime community of SQL Server users and data professionals. PASS Summit is an amazing chance to see the faces of old and new friends. It's a place to meet with customers and fans to continually learn about their evolving needs and to help us grow as a SQL community and develop the best data platform products in the market. Now more than ever, we are architecting for hybrid, because we are hearing from customers that they will be running data workloads on-premises and in the cloud – rarely just one or the other. We believe that the value Microsoft can add is to provide a great and consistent experience wherever they deploy.

Getting the most out of your data is critical for any business in a competitive environment. Businesses need the ability to get the right data into the right hands at the right time. Azure Databricks and Azure SQL Data Warehouse can help you do just that through a Modern Data Warehouse. Azure SQL Data Warehouse is an elastic, globally available, cloud data warehouse that leverages Massively Parallel Processing (MPP) to quickly run complex queries across petabytes of data. Azure SQL Data Warehouse provides a familiar interface for your analysts who know SQL and want to drive action in your business.

This blog post was co-authored by Ali Ghodsi, CEO, Databricks. The confluence of cloud, data, and AI is driving unprecedented change. The ability to utilize data and turn it into breakthrough insights is foundational to innovation today. Our goal is to empower organizations to unleash the power of data and reimagine possibilities that will improve our world. To enable this journey, we are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Databricks, a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark -based analytics platform optimized for Azure.

This blog post was co-authored by Ali Ghodsi, CEO, Databricks. The confluence of cloud, data, and AI is driving unprecedented change. The ability to utilize data and turn it into breakthrough insights is foundational to innovation today. Our goal is to empower organizations to unleash the power of data and reimagine possibilities that will improve our world. To enable this journey, we are excited to announce the general availability of Azure Databricks, a fast, easy, and collaborative Apache Spark -based analytics platform optimized for Azure.

Microsoft today announced the general availability of the Azure SQL Data Warehouse, an elastic data warehouse as a service with enterprise-class features. It is a fully managed DW as a Service that you can provision in minutes and scale up to 60 times larger in seconds. With Azure SQL Data Warehouse, storage and compute scale independently. You can dynamically deploy, grow, shrink, and even pause compute, taking advantage of best-in-class price/performance. Also, SQL Data Warehouse uses the power and familiarity of T-SQL to let you easily integrate query results across relational data in your data warehouse and non-relational data in Azure blob storage.