The announcement was made at the PASS Summit, which is the de facto Microsoft-endorsed SQL Server conference, and one where database administrators (DBAs) dominate the audience. In presenting ...

I write about finance and technology. Microsoft is launching Hadoop for Windows Server and Azure at the O’Reilly Strata Conference + Hadoop World in New York today. “Big data should provide ...

And a big part of those plans includes wiring SQL Server 2012 (formerly known by the codename “Denali”) to the Hadoop distributed computing platform, and bringing Hadoop to Windows Server and ...

Microsoft today announced an update to SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) with other related news, including planned Hadoop support. The second Appliance Update for PDW was released ...

hence the added connectivity between Hadoop and Microsoft products like Excel and SQL Server; and hence the growing ease with which Microsoft contributes to the Hadoop ecosystem, either directly ...