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Note: Microsoft makes big data play with HDInsight Server, first beta release of Hadoop distribution for Windows operating system.
Big Data Talent War: 10 Analytics Job Trends (click image for larger view and for slideshow) The big data world knew it was coming, but now we know the official name of Microsoft's Hadoop software distribution: Microsoft HDInsight Server for Windows. The vendor announced the first preview release of the on-premises software on Wednesday at the Strata Conference in New York.
Microsoft also announced the third release of its Azure cloud-based Hadoop service, now known as Windows Azure HDInsight Service. Both were developed in partnership with Hadoop software developer and distributor Hortonworks.
HDInsight Server for Windows includes core Hadoop (meaning the Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce), plus Pig for MapReduce programming, Hive data query infrastructure, Hortonworks' recently introduced HCatalog table management service for access to Hadoop data, Scoop for data movement, and the Ambari monitoring and management console. All of the above have been reengineered to run on Windows and all are open-source components that are compatible with Apache Hadoop and are being contributed back to the community.
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The HDInsight Server is designed to...