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 ...

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 ...

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 ...