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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 ...

Microsoft has added to its growing list of Eclipse-based product offerings with the general availability release of the HDInsight Tool for Eclipse. This cloud implementation on Azure of the Apache ...

When Microsoft started out dipping its toes into the Hadoop waters, it worked with Hortonworks to port Hadoop to Windows and run it in the Azure cloud. But running Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--H2O.ai is excited to announce that its AI platform is now available on Microsoft Azure HDInsight. Customers can now use H2O.ai’s Sparkling Water solution on a ...

One day after Big Data player Pivotal Software Inc. changed its business model by open sourcing core technologies, Microsoft today announced related product updates with a definite open source slant.