Many were wondering whether Microsoft would somehow adopt the CDP runtime, or if it would perhaps go its own way, and build its own Hadoop distro, as AWS and Google did from the get-go. The latter has ...

When Microsoft started out dipping its toes into the Hadoop waters, it worked with Hortonworks to port Hadoop to Windows and run it in the Azure cloud. But running Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for ...

Microsoft and its partner Hortonworks took a step forward this week in enhancing Hadoop "big data" functionality via Windows and Windows Azure. Preview test releases of the new Microsoft HDInsight ...

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Guest Post from Dave Campbell of Microsoft on their Big Data strategy and why they chose Hortonworks over Cloudera. Last February at Strata Conference in Santa Clara we shared Microsoft’s progress on ...

Microsoft has beefed up its cloud-based Azure HDInsight Hadoop offering with new security enhancements and a performance boost that the company claims will speed up Big Data queries by a factor of 25.

Microsoft today announced its cloud-based Hadoop service, HDInsight, now supports Hadoop 2.4, the latest version of the Big Data software. Unveiled in October 2012, HDInsight exemplifies Microsoft's ...

In much the same way that Microsoft brought spreadsheet crunching to the business world through its now-ubiquitous Excel, the company is hoping to make a similar impact with big data analysis with its ...

In my last article, I told you a bit about Microsoft’s overall big data strategy in SQL Server 2014 (which has just become available to customers) with a deep dive ...