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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft is stepping up its support for Hadoop with its Windows Server and Windows Azure deliverables and will be offering its contributions back to the Apache Software Foundation and the Hadoop ...

Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for Windows was commercially released today, offering another way to run Apache Hadoop "big data" workloads. The product previously was at the beta stage back in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about finance and technology. Microsoft is launching Hadoop for Windows Server and Azure at the O’Reilly Strata Conference ...

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 ...

Hadoop is nearly synonymous with the analysis of big data. The Hortonworks Data Platform on Windows is significant as it means that companies lacking Linux expertise will finally be able to benefit ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a surprise show of support for a popular open-source technology, Microsoft says it will offer Hadoop-based distributions for Windows Server and its Windows Azure cloud computing platform — aiming ...

The Hadoop specialist has announced the general availability of Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0 for Windows, which is designed to bring the power of Hadoop 2.0's YARN-based architecture to Windows data ...