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 ...

Microsoft’s Azure Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service cloud computing tool today turned on support for Hadoop. Or, in Microsoft-speak, HDInsight is now a go, enabling “you to easily ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is bringing Hadoop to the Windows Azure cloud. The popular big-data analytics framework is now available on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. On the one hand, it's great to see ...

Microsoft today made it clear that it is working on bringing Hadoop, which is rising in both popularity and usage, to its Azure, and Windows Server products. The company is building its own ...

Microsoft this week released the first public preview of its Hadoop on Windows Azure service, called HDInsight, in a further embrace of Big Data. After months of private testing, data developers with ...

At Microsoft’s PASS Summit in Seattle today, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Ted Kumert outlined the company’s strategy for tackling big data within and outside the enterprise. And a big part of ...

Microsoft has upgraded its open source analytics services running on Azure with a new version of Hadoop incorporating enhancements of Apache Hive and other open source analytics frameworks. The ...

Making good on an announcement made earlier this year, Microsoft has installed a version of Apache Hadoop on its Azure cloud service. The company now offers a limited preview version of the ...

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 ...

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