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 ...

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 ...

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 today made it clear that it is working on bringing Hadoop, which is rising in both popularity and usage, to its Azure, and Windows Server products. The company is building its own ...

Microsoft is stepping up its support for Hadoop with its Windows Server and Windows Azure deliverables and will be offering its contributions back to the Apache Software Foundation and the Hadoop ...

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SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked distribution for Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced at Hadoop Summit that it is working closely with Microsoft to ...

Microsoft’s Azure Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service cloud computing tool today turned on support for Hadoop. Or, in Microsoft-speak, HDInsight is now a go, enabling “you to easily ...

With prior partnerships in place with Hortonworks Inc. and Cloudera Inc., Microsoft has now teamed up with MapR Technologies Inc., the final member of the "big three" distributors of Apache-Hadoop ...

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 ...