Microsoft has largely left tools for data governance to independent software providers (ISPs) and partners in their ecosystem. (Full disclosure—I am employed by an ISP that sells a product in this ...

GDPR and CCPA brought home to many businesses the realization that if you don't know what data you have, where it's stored, who's got access to it and where it's being moved to, you are accepting an ...

When it comes to managing data, we need to know where it is – but we also need to know what it is. With the rise in regulatory controls, enterprises now pay more attention to data sovereignty, ...

Data classification is an essential pre-requisite to data protection, security and compliance. Firms need to know where their data is and the types of data they hold. Organisations also need to ...

The company also announced general availability for the Azure Synapse data warehousing and analytics service. Microsoft on Thursday unveiled a “unified data governance service” as part of its Azure ...