On May 21, Hortonworks made available for download the 1.1 release of Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for Windows, an open-source implementation of Apache Hadoop. Hortonworks made available for ...

Microsoft earlier this week said Windows Azure HDInsight, its cloud-based Hadoop service developed in partnership with Hortonworks, is now generally available after spending the last several months in ...

The Hadoop Summit 2012 in San Jose June 13 and 14 could see a the public coming out of Hadoop on Microsoft Windows Server. The move, probably either at Hadoop or at Microsoft’s Tech Ed starting June ...

Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for Windows was commercially released today, offering another way to run Apache Hadoop "big data" workloads. The product previously was at the beta stage back in ...

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 ...

Microsoft this week released the first public preview of its Hadoop on Windows Azure service, called HDInsight, in a further embrace of Big Data. After months of private testing, data developers with ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about finance and technology. Microsoft is launching Hadoop for Windows Server and Azure at the O’Reilly Strata Conference ...

Hortonworks is bringing the popular open-source Apache Hadoop data processing platform to Microsoft shops. The company has released a beta version of its Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Hadoop ...

Big data analysis has exploded onto the business stage over thelast 12 months or so, and one of the most important Big Dataanalysis platforms is the open source Apache Hadoop project.It’s generally ...

Microsoft announced this past fall plans to create Hadoop distributions for Windows Azure and Windows Server. And just last week, Microsoft opened up the Community Technology Preview for Hadoop on ...

Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...