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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has beefed up its cloud-based Azure HDInsight Hadoop offering with new security enhancements and a performance boost that the company claims will speed up Big Data queries by a factor of 25.

Microsoft and its partner Hortonworks took a step forward this week in enhancing Hadoop "big data" functionality via Windows and Windows Azure. Preview test releases of the new Microsoft HDInsight ...