Microsoft Discusses Big Data at Hadoop Summit 2013
Hortonworks and Yahoo! kicked of the sixth annual Hadoop Summit yesterday in San Jose, the leading conference for the Apache Hadoop community.
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Navistar Uses Microsoft Big Data Solution to Determine Optimal Pricing Structure
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Microsoft on Big Data at Strata Santa Clara 2013
We’re wrapping up last week’s Strata Santa Clara 2013 Conference after a flurry of activity! The week started off with Hortonworks announcing the release of the beta of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for Windows, the industry’s first 100% Open Source Apache Hadoop-based distribution for Windows. -
Microsoft’s Database Research Lab Conceives PolyBase to Easily Join Relational Data With Data From Hadoop
Complementing Microsoft’s overall Big Data strategy, PolyBase is a breakthrough new technology on the data processing engine in SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse Appliance designed as the simplest way to combine non-relational data and traditional relational data in your analysis. -
Microsoft Talks Big Data at O’Reilly® Strata
For those of you into big data, O’Reilly’s® Strata Conference in Santa Clara, CA is the place to be. -
Windows Azure SQL Database and SQL Server — Performance and Scalability Compared and Contrasted
Curious about the differences in approaching performance and scalability in SQL Server vs. -
The SQL Server Community Looks to Emerging Trends in BI and Database Technologies
At PASS Summit this year Ted Kummert outlined his views on accelerating insights in the new world of data. -
Seamless insights on structured and unstructured data with SQL Server 2012 Parallel Data Warehouse
In the fast evolving new world of Big Data, you are being asked to answer a new set of questions that require immediate responses on data that has changed in volume, variety, complexity and velocity. -
Simplifying Big Data for the Enterprise
Earlier this year we announced partnerships with key players in the Apache Hadoop community to ensure customers have all the necessary solutions to connect with, manage and analyze big data. -
Thai law enforcement optimizes investigations with Microsoft big data solution
If you’ve been watching Be the Next Microsoft Employee along with us, you probably know about the real-world filter on the competition’s challenges – a metric that ensures that competitors are solving the same issues that companies face. -
Do we have the tools we need to navigate the New World of Data?
Last October at the PASS Summit we began discussing our strategy and product roadmap for Big Data including embracing Hadoop as part of our data platform and providing insights to all users on any data. -
Big Data for Everyone: Using Microsoft’s Familiar BI Tools with Hadoop
The Microsoft BI blog series on Microsoft’s Big Data technologies continues with a guest post from Ashvini Sharma discussing how organizations can benefit from Microsoft BI tools connecting to Hadoop.
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