Raghu Ramakrishnan articles

Raghu Ramakrishnan

Technical Fellow and CTO for Data

Raghu Ramakrishnan is CTO for Data, and a Technical Fellow at Microsoft. Previously, he was a professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he wrote the widely used text “Database Management Systems” with Johannes Gehrke, and Chief Scientist at Yahoo!. He has received the Innovation Award from both ACM SIGMOD and SIGKDD, multiple 10-year paper awards, and the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award.

snowflake and Microsoft logos side by side

Published May 22, 2024

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Snowflake and Microsoft announce expansion of their partnership

Announcing our expanded partnership with Snowflake, marking a significant step in our commitment to providing customers with a seamless data experience. This will enable bi-directional data access between Snowflake and Fabric, ensuring more efficient and flexible data management.

Published April 18, 2024

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Microsoft’s vision of an open data lake ecosystem: Open lakes, not walled gardens

With the maturation of cloud-native big data platforms and the exciting revolution in generative AI, the potential for data-driven decisions and operational optimizations has never been greater, raising the urgency of solving the longstanding problem of how to enable organizations to bring together estate-wide data for analytics.