The Ambari Admin screen Versions tab, for an HDInsight cluster based on Microsoft’s own Hadoop distribution. Many were wondering whether Microsoft would somehow adopt the CDP runtime, or if it would ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Microsoft made available its first public preview of its Hadoop on Windows Azure service, known as HDInsight Service, on March 18. To date, Microsoft has made three private previews of the HDInsight ...

Microsoft has made two significant moves behind its Azure big data strategy, including a new, company-backed distribution of the open source Hadoop framework. Hadoop, along with the Kafka messaging ...

For some time Microsoft didn’t offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop, which ...