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" ...

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HDInsight -- Microsoft's cloud-based big data service -- is officially available on Windows Azure. The announcement was made today by Quentin Clark, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of the Data ...

Microsoft has announced that it has launched the Windows Azure HDInsight service to the general public, which offers Hadoop as an Azure cloud service, allowing users to set up clusters in minutes.

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 ...

SAN JOSE, CA and WELLESLEY HILLS, MA--(Marketwired - June 28, 2016) - RedPoint Global, a leading provider of data management and customer engagement software, today announced integration with ...

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 ...