Big Data So Easy a Caveman Could Do It?

Let's face it: big data isn't easy. If you're building a big data application today, you're up to your eyeballs in things like R and Java, MapReduce and Pig, and Storm and Kafka. There's a reason data scientists are so h Read more…

Microsoft Readies Major Push Into Big Data

Microsoft has a lot of irons in the fire. Always has and always will. But judging from its recent acquisition of Revolution Analytics, the early success of its hosted machine learning service, and the forthcoming public Read more…

Can Microsoft Become the McDonald’s of Hadoop?

Microsoft last month officially took the wraps off its Hadoop service, dubbed Windows Azure HDInsight Service. Now that the Hortonworks-based offering is GA, Microsoft is gearing up its incredibly audacious plan to reach no fewer than one billion users with its big data platform. Has Microsoft lost it? Or is the plan just crazy enough to work? Read more…

Microsoft Drinks Open Source Kool-Aid

Microsoft is committing itself to the concept of “openness” through some rather surprising new initiatives and partnerships--as well as through its very open new effort devoted to letting users know just how much they love open... Read more…