Microsoft and Big Data via Azure

More on how MS is addressing Big Data via Azure.     Interesting hints on direction.  " .... At Build 2015 yesterday, Microsoft unveiled three new ways it's making Azure into a haven for big data, whether it was born in one's data center or out in the cloud. Microsoft's strategy is clear: It's betting heavily on its customers generating and storing data natively in Azure, and on creating a hybrid local/remote architecture for working with that data. ... "