Microsoft on Monday announced the "general availability" of Windows Azure HDInsight, the company's cloud-based distribution of Hadoop. Hadoop is an Apache open source project for so-called "big data" ...

HDInsight -- Microsoft's cloud-based big data service -- is officially available on Windows Azure. The announcement was made today by Quentin Clark, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of the Data ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with ...

Many were wondering whether Microsoft would somehow adopt the CDP runtime, or if it would perhaps go its own way, and build its own Hadoop distro, as AWS and Google did from the get-go. The latter has ...

Kyvos Insights, an OLAP-on-Hadoop startup, is announcing today that it can now run on Microsoft's Azure HDInsight. Customers can now provision an HDInsight cluster, then set up an Azure virtual ...

Microsoft is now officially launching its long awaited Hardoop-based features for Windows Azure in a new service called Windows Azure HDInsight. The service has been in a public preview test since ...

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 ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More After a yearlong beta period, Apache Kafka on Azure ...

SAN JOSE, CA and WELLESLEY HILLS, MA--(Marketwired - June 28, 2016) - RedPoint Global, a leading provider of data management and customer engagement software, today announced integration with ...

Microsoft announced updates to several Big Data-related services on its Azure cloud platform with preview of Azure HDInsight, Storm on HDInsight, Azure Machine Learning. Microsoft recently emphasized ...

RedPoint Global, a leading provider of data management and customer engagement software, today announced integration with Microsoft Azure HDInsight to support enhanced data management capabilities via ...