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 ...

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" ...

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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 announced HDInsight Tools for Visual Studio Code is now generally available, letting coders do Big Data analytics right from within the cross-platform, open source code editor. Specifically, ...

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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 ...

Microsoft this week released Azure Data Lake as a generally available (GA), production-ready service, backed by Microsoft's 99.9 percent service-level agreement. Azure Data Lake is a service for "Big ...

Security researchers have found eight serious cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws in Azure HDInsight, a big data processing service powered by open-source technologies like Apache Hadoop, Spark, Hive and ...