Why Microsoft Fabric has already been adopted by 70% of the Fortune 500 — and what’s next

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft is bringing even more database options into the Microsoft Fabric fold, alongside a series of initiatives that aim to help tackle enterprise data complexity. For literally generations of databases, compute and storage were always tightly coupled. That caused all kinds of scalability and data silo issues for enterprises. In 2023, Microsoft Fabric was first introduced as a strategy to help overcome that challenge. The basic idea behind Microsoft Fabric is to be a common data layer across Microsoft’s data and analytics tools. In November 2024, Microsoft Fabric expanded with support for the Azure SQL transactional database platform. Microsoft, just like its rivals at Google at Amazon, has a lot of different database platforms. While Azure SQL is widely used, when it comes to AI there is another more influential database platform and that’s CosmosDB. At ... Read full article.