On the hardware side, the company revealed new reference architecture ... that already use SQL Server Analysis Services in their private data centers can take the models from that deployment ...

Microsoft's Azure platform looks like, at first glance, a bewildering array of services and features, many of which have been recently updated including Azure Stream Analytics, SQL Database ...

And the GAs just keep coming: Azure Analysis Services, the cloud counterpart ... including their architectures and data models. SQL Server has been around for a long time now -- almost a quarter ...