Windows Azure has added eight new features, including new mobile Services, web site scaling and data sync.

Find out more about Connect CDC, Connect ETL and Connect for Big Data integration of mainframe application data to the Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Azure SQL Data Warehouse for advanced analytics.

How will SQL Database Edge connect back to Azure/on-premises? Azure SQL Database Edge has a streaming engine which is built on top of Azure Stream Analytics.

Microsoft's latest cloud data warehouse release retains its decoupled compute-storage advantage, while crafting parity with Amazon Redshift's local storage performance.