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 ...

The dashboards contain information on node infrastructure, YARN, MapReduce, storage/CPU utilization as well as data for each of several services running on the cluster. In providing this functionality ...

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 ...

Quentin Clark, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, discussed the company’s Big Data strategy, as well as their partnership with Hortonworks with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, ...

Making Hadoop mainstream, and enabling customers to pull Hadoop data to use with familiar tools — these are the main goals of the Microsoft-Hortonworks partnership. Eron Kelly, General Manager of SQL ...

Microsoft's cloud-based distribution of Hadoop -- which it has been developing for the past year-plus with Hortonworks -- is generally available as of October 28. Microsoft officials also are ...

Making good on an announcement made earlier this year, Microsoft has installed a version of Apache Hadoop on its Azure cloud service. The company now offers a limited preview version of the ...