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 ...

Microsoft has announced that it has launched the Windows Azure HDInsight service to the general public, which offers Hadoop as an Azure cloud service, allowing users to set up clusters in minutes.

Microsoft today announced the general availability of Windows Azure HDInsight, the company’s cloud-based distribution of Hadoop. As you might expect, the new release is Apache Hadoop offered as an ...

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Microsoft's cloud-based distribution of Hadoop -- which it has been developing for the past year-plus with Hortonworks -- is generally available as of October 28. Microsoft officials also are ...

Microsoft's forthcoming cloud-based big data service is "feature-complete" and in many regards is more advanced than rival offerings, but developers shouldn't anticipate a seamless experience. That ...

Wilson said Microsoft HDInsight gave organisations the option of adopting cloud based technology, working with their data on premise or a combination of both. “It allows end users to work with ...

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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 ...

Microsoft announced HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code is now generally available, letting coders do Big Data analytics right from within the cross-platform, open source code editor. Specifically, ...