Microsoft reimagines Fabric with focus on AI [Video]

The company announced a slate of enhancements to its data analytics platform, including Fabric Databases, which can provision auto-optimizing and auto-scaling AI databases in seconds.

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Microsoft announced a host of additions to its Microsoft Fabric data analytics platform at Microsoft Ignite 2024 in Chicago on Tuesday, including Fabric Databases. The innovations are part of Microsoft’s reimagining of the pillars of Microsoft Fabric with a focus on providing AI-powered tools for data projects and delivering an open and AI-ready data lake.

The company launched the SaaS-based end-to-end data platform a year ago as a pre-integrated and optimized environment to help data teams work together without getting mired in infrastructure and configuration settings. On Tuesday, Microsoft upped the ante with Fabric Databases, which it calls “a new class of cloud databases that brings a world-class transactional database natively to Microsoft Fabric for app developers.” Fabric Databases enables autonomous databases that provision in …