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 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’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 ...

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 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 (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...