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Microsoft rolled out a number of new Azure features and capabilities during the week of June 2. Here's a round-up based on various Microsoft blog posts from this past week: Microsoft made available a ...

The cloud-based Big Data service, Microsoft Azure HDInsight, now supports Apache HBase clusters. Microsoft announced a technology preview of the Hadoop component just days after announcing HDInsight ...

Microsoft, already under scrutiny for its cloud security practices, recently patched as many as eight severe vulnerabilities in various Apache services in Azure HDInsight — the software giant's ...

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 on Monday announced the "general availability" of Windows Azure HDInsight, the company's cloud-based distribution of Hadoop. Hadoop is an Apache open source project for so-called "big data" ...

Microsoft today announced Apache Storm technology for real-time Big Data analytics will be integrated with Microsoft Azure, highlighting several expansions of the company's cloud computing platform.