Graphics processing units have become much more prominent in recent years because of their ability to perform the complex calculations on large data sets that underpin modern artificial intelligence ...

The Microsoft Azure Incubations team recently unveiled Drasi, an innovative event-driven, open-source data processing system that takes a novel approach to tracking and processing rapidly changing ...

Despite the ongoing digital transformation, many organizations today still spend quite a bit of time manually processing information from countless documents. Because of the nature of digital files ...

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Capitalizing on big data starts with collecting it -- a daunting task for data management and analytics teams, who typically must collect large amounts of diverse data from numerous sources. But that ...

Electronic Data Processing (EDP) refers to the input, processing and output of information. EDP is often called Information Services or Systems (IS) or Management Information Services (MIS), according ...

The immense benefits of big data are attainable only when organizations can find ways to manage a massive volume of varied data. "Most Fortune 500 companies are still struggling to manage their data, ...

In December, reports suggested that Microsoft had acquired Fungible, a startup fabricating a type of data center hardware known as a data processing unit (DPU), for around $190 million. Today, ...

Microsoft on Tuesday revealed new custom chips aimed at powering workloads on its Azure cloud and bolstering security, particularly a new hardware accelerator that can manage data processing, ...