<p>"Data business is booming and the global data market that is available for data platforms to tap is a whopping $1.6 Trillion. Real companies make real products and real solutions based on data. Microsoft Data Strategy would be to maximise the value derived from all such accessible data. The strategy would be to go Cloud First with other things following. Microsoft data platform is evolved, reliable and people-focused and will be more productive and easily accessible to customers," T. K. Rengarajan, Corporate Vice President - Data Platform, Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft Corporation, said, at the SQLServerGeeks Annual Summit 2015.<br><br>The 3-day SQL and Data Conference being attended by hundreds of SQL professionals will run till the 29 August. Organised by SQLServerGeeks.com and sponsored by Microsoft, HP, SanDisk, Melissa Data and S&P Capital IQ.<br><br>The summit is featuring SQL Star Speakers such as Denny Cherry, Benjamin Nevarez, Praveen Srivatsa, Alberto Ferrari, Joey D Antoni, Dave Dustin, Vic Parmar, Andreas Volter, Stuart Padley, Lara Rubbelke, Scott Klein, Microsoft SQL Data Platform among others. <br><br>The Data Business at Microsoft manages 1.5 million databases and collects 70 TB of data daily. The key focus for the data platform would be to make data simpler and more capable. Till date SQL has been one of the greatest releases of Microsoft. At Microsoft we have assembled an incredible data platform and this is the beginning of another two decades of impressive data technology' he added.<br><br>Amit R. S. Bansal, Chairman of the Conference & Director of eDominer Systems, said, “Today, Data is the key to an organisation’s success. With the right data, we can do wonders. Asia has a huge talent pool of data professionals. This summit, for the first time ever, has brought all SQL & Data professionals under one roof and will facilitate skills up-gradation and offer immense networking opportunity.”<br><br>(BW Online Bureau)</p>