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Microsoft Corp. today is expanding its Fabric data platform with the addition of native graph database and geospatial mapping capabilities, saying the enhancements enhance Fabric’s capacity to power ...

Responding to the increasing size of data analysis projects, but also to its customers desire to trim their budgets on cloud spend, Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled Fabric, what it bills as an "an end-to ...

Microsoft has introduced new AI-driven features within the Microsoft Fabric data platform to accelerate application development and improve other enterprise functions. As 2025 approaches, managing ...

Microsoft this week announced several usability improvements coming to Copilot in Fabric in preparation of its general availability release later this year. First, Microsoft is changing its process ...

Microsoft unveiled a new cloud data and analytics platform two weeks ago that analysts say give it an edge over its main rivals, Amazon and Google, in the fiercely competitive cloud market. Microsoft ...

After announcing support for Cosmos DB inside the Microsoft Fabric data platform at Build 2025, Microsoft recently opened a public preview of the new service. This release gives Cosmos DB a new role ...

Microsoft says that the future of AI-based applications lies in unifying data and intelligence, and that new updates to its data and analytics platform, Fabric, are a step in that direction. Announced ...

At the Ignite conference today, Microsoft made a series of announcements about Azure databases. It announced a brand-new Azure database called HorizonDB, which is a fully managed PostgreSQL database ...

Despite its SaaS promise, Microsoft Fabric has faced multiple unaddressed outages in recent months, prompting calls for better transparency, postmortem reporting and official communication from IT ...