Microsoft's getting into the Hadoop game, and people are skeptical. Can Microsoft really embrace open source technology? And if it can, will it end up co-opting it somehow, or will it truly play nice?

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 PolyBase ...

Yahoo hosted the first-ever Apache Hadoop Summit this week in Santa Clara, Calif. The day-long event presented a program of speakers from the Hadoop developer and user communities, including ...

Guest Post from Dave Campbell of Microsoft on their Big Data strategy and why they chose Hortonworks over Cloudera. Last February at Strata Conference in Santa Clara we shared Microsoft’s progress on ...