The Hadoop Summit 2012 in San Jose June 13 and 14 could see a the public coming out of Hadoop on Microsoft Windows Server. The move, probably either at Hadoop or at Microsoft’s Tech Ed starting June ...

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 ...

Hortonworks said the announcement marks the industry's first Hadoop distribution -- which, until now, has run exclusively on the open-source Linux OS -- that is optimized for Windows. "For the very ...

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 this week released the first public preview of its Hadoop on Windows Azure service, called HDInsight, in a further embrace of Big Data. After months of private testing, data developers with ...

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 ...

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 announced this past fall plans to create Hadoop distributions for Windows Azure and Windows Server. And just last week, Microsoft opened up the Community Technology Preview for Hadoop on ...

Hadoop on Windows got its latest update, including a new data OS, storage options and speedier queries for data warehousing. The Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.0 for Windows supports the Apache ...

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 ...

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 ...