When Microsoft started out dipping its toes into the Hadoop waters, it worked with Hortonworks to port Hadoop to Windows and run it in the Azure cloud. But running Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for ...

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Microsoft has added to its growing list of Eclipse-based product offerings with the general availability release of the HDInsight Tool for Eclipse. This cloud implementation on Azure of the Apache ...

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Many were wondering whether Microsoft would somehow adopt the CDP runtime, or if it would perhaps go its own way, and build its own Hadoop distro, as AWS and Google did from the get-go. The latter has ...

Three high-risk vulnerabilities have been uncovered in Microsoft Azure's big-data analytics service HDInsight. Four and a half months after disclosing eight cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities ...

Microsoft, already under scrutiny for its cloud security practices, recently patched as many as eight severe vulnerabilities in various Apache services in Azure HDInsight — the software giant's ...