Microsoft: Features
The Week in Big Data Research
We span the globe for this week's big data research and development stories. From modeling in Poland and Montreal to analyzing e-literature in Norway and hashing in Japan, this week has a distinct international flair. Also included this week are studies of big data compression out of MIT and private data center access from Microsoft. Read more...
Microsoft Taps on Open Source Window
Following the demise of its Dryad project, which sought to bring Hadoop-like capabilities to the Windows community, Microsoft branched out and joined forces with Hadoop distro vendor and Apache gatekeeper, Hortonworks. In an effort to give the open source community an open Windows access to Hadoop, they were...Read more...
Expedia Adds Notes to Big Data Symphony
This week at the SAS Premier Business Leadership Summit, we spoke to Joe Megibow, VP and General Manager of Expedia.com, a travel giant that spun out of Microsoft that has had to contend with the process of evolution of 16 years of hardware and software investments have led to...Read more...
Microsoft: News in Brief
Microsoft Pushes Hadoop up Windows Hill
Back in November we took a look at how Microsoft was tapping into the open source momentum behind Hadoop with their take on the framework. Since then, the company has been able to push their Hadoop for Windows message into the...Read more...
Distributed Sensemaking for Everyday Big Data
This week researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University combined forces to tap the power of what they call distributed sensemaking. In essence, what their developments could yield are new ways of thinking about how average...Read more...
Microsoft: This Just In
Microsoft Reveals Rapid Big Data Adoption
More than 75 percent of midsize to large businesses are implementing big-data-related solutions within the next 12 months, according to new Microsoft Corp. research released today.Read more...
Comperio Announces Support for Microsoft HDInsight
Comperio today announced that it has joined the Microsoft Big Data Incubation Program.Read more...
U.S. Military Looks to Microsoft for Modernization Plan
Several branches of the military are looking to Microsoft for big data and datacenter-focused modernization.Read more...
Impetus Announces Support for Microsoft HDInsight
Impetus announces support for Microsoft HDInsight. Impetus' research and development organization is working to build solutions complementary to the Microsoft HDInsight platform that will enable customers to quickly bring their Big Data initiatives to market.Read more...
Big Data Partnership to Support HDInsight
Microsoft's HDInsight will be supported by the Big Data Partnership, an organization that offers training services and support to organizations with big data anaytics needs.Read more...
