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AI, Data & the Future of Manufacturing
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Category: Data Engineering and Storage
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The smallest changes can sometimes have the biggest impact. We’re introducing workspace-level IP firewall rules in Microsoft Fabric, giving users and administrators significantly more granular control over how and where sensitive data can be accessed. This enhancement is a critical step in building a secure, compliant foundation that enables confident data sharing at scale across…
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A recent discussion on the history of data platforms revealed a powerful pattern: the corporate data landscape has been shaped by two great waves of commoditization, and the second is cresting right now. The First Wave crashed over analytics in the 2000s. Specialized BI tools like Tableau and MicroStrategy offered powerful, yet expensive, insights. Microsoft…