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Microsoft?s Big Data Plans: Acknowledge, Embrace, Integrate
Summary: Microsoft had its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto this week, and over 16,000 people were there. So was Big Data.
By Andrew Brust for Big on Data | July 13, 2012 -- Updated 13:00 GMT (06:00 PDT)
Microsoft held its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto this week. Although the event is held in North America, it is the only such event all year, anywhere, and attendance is truly international. Microsoft said that this year, over 16,000 people from 156 countries attended WPC. It is by any measure a big show and this year Microsoft had a lot to say about Big Data. Whether in keynotes, breakout sessions or invite-only roundtables, the message was there.
First, the facts: Microsoft has been working with Hortonworks to build a distribution of Hadoop for Windows Azure, its cloud platform, and for Windows Server. Right now the service is available as a cloud service in a by-invitation beta that just entered its third release. The distribution includes Hadoop itself, Hive, Pig, HBase, Sqoop, Mahout and Carnegie Mellon?s ?Pegasus? graph mining system.
Details:
http://www.zdnet.com...ate-7000000846/
Summary: Microsoft had its Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto this week, and over 16,000 people were there. So was Big Data.
By Andrew Brust for Big on Data | July 13, 2012 -- Updated 13:00 GMT (06:00 PDT)
Microsoft held its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto this week. Although the event is held in North America, it is the only such event all year, anywhere, and attendance is truly international. Microsoft said that this year, over 16,000 people from 156 countries attended WPC. It is by any measure a big show and this year Microsoft had a lot to say about Big Data. Whether in keynotes, breakout sessions or invite-only roundtables, the message was there.
First, the facts: Microsoft has been working with Hortonworks to build a distribution of Hadoop for Windows Azure, its cloud platform, and for Windows Server. Right now the service is available as a cloud service in a by-invitation beta that just entered its third release. The distribution includes Hadoop itself, Hive, Pig, HBase, Sqoop, Mahout and Carnegie Mellon?s ?Pegasus? graph mining system.
Details:
http://www.zdnet.com...ate-7000000846/
