近日，微软正式发布Windows Azure HDInsight，这是微软Azure云端的Apache Hadoop版本，针对海量数据应用。 Hadoop为开源的软件架构平台，可用来存储与处理集群服务器上的大量数据，并已成为管理海量数据的首选平台。包括Google、Yahoo、Facebook、Amazon、IBM及英特尔等业者都 ...

Microsoft's cloud-based distribution of Hadoop -- which it has been developing for the past year-plus with Hortonworks -- is generally available as of October 28. Microsoft officials also are ...

When Microsoft started out dipping its toes into the Hadoop waters, it worked with Hortonworks to port Hadoop to Windows and run it in the Azure cloud. But running Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for ...

Microsoft has beefed up its cloud-based Azure HDInsight Hadoop offering with new security enhancements and a performance boost that the company claims will speed up Big Data queries by a factor of 25.

Sept. 29 — Hortonworks, Inc. (NASDAQ: HDP) today announced updates to the Microsoft Azure HDInsight Hadoop Cloud solution. As part of its collaboration with Microsoft, these updates will allow ...

In my last article, I told you a bit about Microsoft’s overall big data strategy in SQL Server 2014 (which has just become available to customers) with a deep dive ...