Gray Systems Lab

November 4, 2019

Enterprises rely on a hybrid technology approach to take advantage of their on-premises investment and, at the same time, utilize cloud innovation. As more business operations and applications expand to include edge devices and multiple clouds, hybrid capabilities must enable…

November 4, 2019

Today, businesses are forced to maintain two types of analytical systems, data warehouses and data lakes. Data warehouses provide critical insights on business health. Data lakes can uncover important signals on customers, products, employees, and processes. Both are critical, yet…

July 11, 2019

A new cloud service unveiled by Microsoft today sets the stage for the company’s customers to share and monetize some of their most valuable internal data.

July 11, 2019

Big data analytics is no joke — research firm Research and Markets anticipates the segment will be worth upwards of $40.6 billion by 2024. Perhaps that’s why it’s not surprising that ahead of Inspire 2019 in Las Vegas, Microsoft announced…

January 24, 2019

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Citus Data, a company that focused on making PostgreSQL databases faster and more scalable. Citus’ open-source PostgreSQL extension essentially turns the application into a distributed database and, while there has been a lot…

August 9, 2018

At Microsoft, like many companies using data for competitive advantage, opportunities for insight abound and our analytics needs were scaling fast – almost out of control. We invested in Yet Another Resource Manager (YARN) to meet the demands of an…