Topic: Big Data

a close up of a door
•
•
1 min read

Azure HDInsight 3.6, now generally available 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

This week at the DataWorks Summit, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure HDInsight 3.6, backed by Microsoft’s…

•
•
1 min read

Now available: open source Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

This week Microsoft released the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit version 2.0 out of beta. The toolkit, previously known as…

a screenshot of a video game
•
•
1 min read

Updates to HDInsight tools for IntelliJ and Eclipse now available 

  • By Microsoft + Open Source, Microsoft’s commitment to open source is ingrained in our business. Investments in this space began several years ago and continue to be reinforced through technology decisions, partner momentum, customer adoption, and community contributions.

HDInsight is Microsoft Azure’s managed Hadoop-as-a-service. It is the only fully-managed cloud Hadoop offering that provides optimized open…

•
•
1 min read

Zoom on the InfoQ week, featuring BizSpark Plus startups! 

  • By Frederic Aatz, Open Source Strategy Lead, Microsoft France. Focused on implementation of Microsoft’s open source strategy with communities, businesses, partners, and user organizations in France.

Four BizSpark Plus startups were interviewed by IT publication InfoQ France, following their participation at Microsoft Experiences conference…

a view of a snow covered slope
•
•
11 min read

How-to: Install Cloudera Enterprise on Microsoft Azure (Part 2) 

  • By Koushik Biswas, Director, Technology Strategy, Microsoft Open Source Specialist Sales. Passionate about anything open source, led Yahoo’s global CDN, edge delivery and distributed caching teams before joining Microsoft's OSS revolution.

Earlier this year, GoDataDriven deployed a large Cloudera Enterprise (CDH + Cloudera Manager) cluster on Microsoft Azure for…

a view of a snow covered slope
•
•
10 min read

How-to: Install Cloudera Enterprise on Microsoft Azure (Part 1) 

  • By Koushik Biswas, Director, Technology Strategy, Microsoft Open Source Specialist Sales. Passionate about anything open source, led Yahoo’s global CDN, edge delivery and distributed caching teams before joining Microsoft's OSS revolution.

Earlier this year, GoDataDriven deployed a large Cloudera Enterprise (CDH + Cloudera Manager) cluster on Microsoft Azure for…