Microsoft Fabric Thursday Expert Series - 2025

Session Tittle: Decoupling Compute and Storage: Enabling Intelligent, Scalable Data Platforms

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Description: Cloud-native architectures are transforming enterprise data strategy, with the decoupling of compute and storage emerging as a foundational pattern for building scalable, agile, and intelligent systems. This session will explore how this shift empowers organizations to unlock performance, flexibility, and cost-efficiency capabilities that align closely with the principles of Microsoft Fabric. We’ll examine how independent scaling of storage and compute enables teams to right-size infrastructure to workload demands, eliminate overprovisioning, and avoid vendor lock-in. Drawing on research from Flexera, Deloitte, and Gartner, we’ll share how leading organizations have achieved up to 38% in cloud cost savings, improved time-to-insight by 53%, and accelerated machine learning delivery by up to 72%. The session highlights practical applications through services like Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake, and serverless compute patterns demonstrating how decoupled architectures fuel streaming, batch, and real-time workloads across lakehouse ecosystems. We’ll also explore how these designs reduce data silos by over 60%, enhance AI adoption by 44%, and drive agility in multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Attendees will gain actionable insights into how Microsoft Fabric’s unified data platform supports decoupled architectures enabling seamless data integration, governance, and analytics at scale. This talk is ideal for data architects, engineers, and technology leaders looking to future-proof their data stack and drive innovation through intelligent cloud-native design.