SQL Azure federation can be used in open source implementations because the technology is covered under Microsoft's open specification promise, according to this Microsoft blog.

Seamless Connection Across Azure Data Sources and Beyond The Grafana application lets users easily visualize all their telemetry data in a single user interface. With Grafana’s extensible architecture ...

Microsoft has been developing a set of tools to help manage Azure-hosted VMs for some time now under its Project Flash banner ...

Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana are now available in public preview and support Azure data sources including Azure Monitor metrics, logs, traces, alerts, Azure Resource Graph, and Azure ...

Microsoft began taking sign ups for its SQL Azure Reporting Services public test build on the same day that rival Salesforce unveiled its plans for a cloud database of its own.

Data sources can be uploaded files, Azure Blob storage, or an Azure AI Search index. This last option allows you to quickly bring in a pre-processed vector index, which will increase accuracy and ...

And about 25% of the virtual machines running on Azure are using Linux, too, as of summer 2015. None of these announcements are especially new, or out of left field.

Azure Data Factory has connectivity to Azure Stream Analytics, and the latter has connectivity to Event Hubs. Power BI knows how to talk to Apache Spark running on HDInsight.