Microsoft announced this past fall plans to create Hadoop distributions for Windows Azure and Windows Server. And just last week, Microsoft opened up the Community Technology Preview for Hadoop on ...

As we head into June, the last month of Redmond's fiscal 2012, it's a good time to check in on expected Microsoft's products and how they're progressing (or not). One of those promised deliverables ...

The Hadoop Summit 2012 in San Jose June 13 and 14 could see a the public coming out of Hadoop on Microsoft Windows Server. The move, probably either at Hadoop or at Microsoft’s Tech Ed starting June ...

Hortonworks is bringing the popular open-source Apache Hadoop data processing platform to Microsoft shops. The company has released a beta version of its Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hadoop ...

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 last week described more about its plans for "big data" and Hadoop interoperability with Windows and Microsoft tools. The details were described on Wednesday by David Campbell, a Microsoft ...

For some time Microsoft didn’t offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which ...

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 ...

Hortonworks said the announcement marks the industry's first Hadoop distribution -- which, until now, has run exclusively on the open-source Linux OS -- that is optimized for Windows. "For the very ...