Microsoft and its partner Hortonworks took a step forward this week in enhancing Hadoop "big data" functionality via Windows and Windows Azure. Preview test releases of the new Microsoft HDInsight ...

Microsoft and Hortonworks are bringing Hadoop to a billion users. The Big Data startup announced this week that the latest version of its open source Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) has been made ...

Hortonworks has announced that the Hortonworks Data Platform is now available for Windows in addition to Linux, enabling organizations to run Hadoop-based solutions natively on Windows. The beta ...

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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 ...

Microsoft made available its first public preview of its Hadoop on Windows Azure service, known as HDInsight Service, on March 18. To date, Microsoft has made three private previews of the HDInsight ...

At last, big-data fans, we've got some word of the seemingly-missing-but-not-forgotten Windows Server implementation of Hadoop promised by Microsoft and Hortonworks. I'd started wondering whether ...