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 ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

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 made available its first public preview of its Hadoop on Windows Azure service, known as HDInsight Service, on March 18. To date, Microsoft has made three private previews of the HDInsight ...

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 has announced several Windows Azure updates this week including a Hadoop distribution preview called HDInsight. Customers who need to process analytics within the open source Apache Hadoop ...