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 is adding a second, previously undisclosed Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build to its Hadoop on Azure roadmap, which could result in the service missing the company's own release ...

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 ...

Microsoft is making available a preview version of its Azure HDInsight (Hadoop on Azure) service running on Linux as of February 18. Like its Windows counterpart, the HDInsight on Linux service is ...

Microsoft announced an update to its Azure cloud service that adds support for developing on Azure using Node.js, among other new features and improvements Microsoft is also offering a limited preview ...

Microsoft earlier this week said Windows Azure HDInsight, its cloud-based Hadoop service developed in partnership with Hortonworks, is now generally available after spending the last several months in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...