Virtualize your existing data into OneLake with shortcuts
Data silos continue to be a major challenge for enterprise data analytics solutions. Organizations within an enterprise often operate autonomously from one
Data silos remain a significant issue for enterprise data analytics, as organizational units tend to function separately with unique solutions, tools, processes, and standards. Despite attempts to consolidate data into an enterprise-wide data lake, the scale of these solutions often results in an unmanageable backlog, and new silos form as businesses continue operations.
The proposed solution is OneLake, a tool that allows the creation of "shortcuts" or special folders that point to other storage locations. This virtualizes data products from various data silos, eliminating the need for data copies and movement. With shortcuts, data becomes instantly accessible within your Lakehouse, regardless of its original location.
The concept is illustrated by an example where a team wishes to use the platform 'Fabric,' but their organization's data is stored in ADLS. Traditionally, data transfer would require scheduled copying from ADLS to the new platform, which could be problematic depending on the size and frequency of the data. However, with OneLake, this issue can be bypassed by creating a shortcut to the ADLS data, making it instantly accessible within the Lakehouse.
- Quick introduction of OneLake Shortcuts
- Demo on how to use them in Microsoft Fabric
- Microsoft Fabric is the next generation data platform for analytics
- Integration of Power BI, Data Factory, and next-gen Synapse experiences
- Easy-to-use analytics experience for various roles
- Secure sharing of data, code, models, and experiments
- Simplification of data science processes
- Data ingestion to serving predictive insights
- Free trial available at aka.ms/try-fabric
- Learn more at microsoft.com/fabric and visit the blog at aka.ms/fabric-tech-blog
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Microsoft Fabric is a powerful, unified platform designed to streamline analytics for various roles in an organization. By integrating tools such as Power BI, Data Factory, and the next-gen Synapse experiences, Fabric enables users to securely share critical information across their team. The platform simplifies data science processes, from data ingestion to serving predictive insights, making it a valuable resource for advancing analytics efforts. Experience the full potential of Microsoft Fabric by signing up for a free trial today.
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Virtualization of data has become increasingly important in recent years, and OneLake Shortcuts provides a quick and easy way to do this. In this tutorial, Trevor Olson, Program Manager for OneLake Shortcuts will provide an introduction to OneLake Shortcuts and demonstrate how to use them in Microsoft Fabric. Microsoft Fabric is a powerful data platform that provides analytics and integrates Power BI, Data Factory, and the next generation of Synapse experiences, enabling easy and secure data sharing, code, models, and experiments across teams. With Microsoft Fabric, users can simplify the data science process from data ingestion to serving predictive insights. To get started with Microsoft Fabric, sign up for the free trial—no credit card information required. To learn more about Microsoft Fabric, visit microsoft.com/fabric and check out the blog for the latest tech updates at aka.ms/fabric-tech-blog.
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