Microsoft hopes Dallas project will become 'iTunes for data'

From InfoWorld: With its Dallas project, Microsoft seems to be exploring the idea of becoming a data broker. At the Tech Ed conference this week in New Orleans, the company discussed how its planned data broker service might operate.

"Dallas is a broker for discovering information," said Adam Wilson, a program manager working on Dallas. The data sets themselves, available by APIs (application programming interfaces), come from a variety of data sources.

Microsoft hopes Dallas will become an "iTunes for data," said Douglas Purdy, Microsoft chief technology officer for data and modeling, speaking in another session.

During his session describing Dallas, however, Wilson did not reveal any details of when the service would be made commercially available. The Community Technology Preview version, running on Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform, is available now.

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