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 ...

In February, we wrote about a leaked slide that revealed the Microsoft Hadoop roadmap: As you can see, the roadmap indicates Microsoft is planning to simultaneously deliver the final version of Hadoop ...

Organizations that want to run Apache Hadoop to analyze their big data without setting up a computer cluster can now procure the data processing framework as a service from a startup co-founded by the ...

Rackspace on Monday became the latest vendor to offer Hadoop-as-a-service through Hortonworks, positioning it as a way for customers to take advantage of the big data technology on a pay-as-you-go ...

If Google knows a lot about one thing, it is that developers do not want to spend a lot of time setting up infrastructure just so they can create applications that chew on lots of data to run the ...

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 ...