Microsoft has announced that both Gen2 of Data Lake Storage and Azure Data Explorer are now generally available. Furthermore, a preview of Mapping Data Flow in Data Factory is also live.

Microsoft today announced that Azure Data Explorer (ADX) and Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS Gen2) are generally available for Azure customers.

Microsoft's Apache Spark-based analytics platform has now gotten a series of enhancements centered around big data service integrations, while also expanding its availability to four new regions.

The announcement also includes several other updates to Microsoft's Azure data services offerings for enterprise customers.

Microsoft is readying a second version of its Azure Data Lake Storage service, bringing new capabilities to Azure Data Factory and adding two new Azure regions in China.

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 integrates HDFS and cloud object storage, enabling businesses to run big data analytics without moving data.

Okera's Active Data Access Platform now helps secure and govern data lakes based on Azure Data Lake Storage.

Microsoft also positions Blob as the storage element of data lakes and for big data analytics, with Blob storage providing capacity for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, for cloud-based analytics.