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Microsoft to develop Hadoop distributions for Windows Server and Azure
By Mary Jo Foley | October 12, 2011, 9:01am PDT
Summary: Microsoft is stepping up its support of Hadoop with new Windows Azure and Windows Server distributions in order to better support users? big data and unstructured data needs.
Microsoft is stepping up its support for Hadoop with its Windows Server and Windows Azure deliverables and will be offering its contributions back to the Apache Software Foundation and the Hadoop project.
By developing its own implementations of the Hadoop stack, Microsoft is looking to provide customers with another option for big data/unstructured data storage and access, officials said.
Microsoft officials made the announcement at the SQL PASS Summit on October 12. Company execs also confirmed at the event what I?ve been expecting for the past month or so: SQL Server ?Denali? will be officially named SQL Server 2012 when it ships in the first part of 2012. (Server and Tools boss Satya Nadella said earlier this year to expect Denali to ship in the ?early part? of next year.) Denali is currently at the Community Technology Preview (CTP) 3 stage; next stop is RTM and general availability (no beta is on the roadmap).
Microsoft is going to be working with Hadoop core contributors from Yahoo Hadoop spinoff Hortonworks. Microsoft and Hortonworks are readying a CTP test build of their Hadoop-based service for Windows Azure for delivery before the end of calendar 2011 and a CTP of the Hadoop-based distribution for Windows Server some time in 2012. The new stacks will work with Microsoft?s business-intelligence tools, including Excel, PowerPivot and PowerView (the new data-analysis technology that is part of SQL Server 2012 and was formerly known by its codename ?Crescent?).
Read more about at:
http://www.zdnet.com...and-azure/10958
By Mary Jo Foley | October 12, 2011, 9:01am PDT
Summary: Microsoft is stepping up its support of Hadoop with new Windows Azure and Windows Server distributions in order to better support users? big data and unstructured data needs.
Microsoft is stepping up its support for Hadoop with its Windows Server and Windows Azure deliverables and will be offering its contributions back to the Apache Software Foundation and the Hadoop project.
By developing its own implementations of the Hadoop stack, Microsoft is looking to provide customers with another option for big data/unstructured data storage and access, officials said.
Microsoft officials made the announcement at the SQL PASS Summit on October 12. Company execs also confirmed at the event what I?ve been expecting for the past month or so: SQL Server ?Denali? will be officially named SQL Server 2012 when it ships in the first part of 2012. (Server and Tools boss Satya Nadella said earlier this year to expect Denali to ship in the ?early part? of next year.) Denali is currently at the Community Technology Preview (CTP) 3 stage; next stop is RTM and general availability (no beta is on the roadmap).
Microsoft is going to be working with Hadoop core contributors from Yahoo Hadoop spinoff Hortonworks. Microsoft and Hortonworks are readying a CTP test build of their Hadoop-based service for Windows Azure for delivery before the end of calendar 2011 and a CTP of the Hadoop-based distribution for Windows Server some time in 2012. The new stacks will work with Microsoft?s business-intelligence tools, including Excel, PowerPivot and PowerView (the new data-analysis technology that is part of SQL Server 2012 and was formerly known by its codename ?Crescent?).
Read more about at:
http://www.zdnet.com...and-azure/10958
