Big data: Nowadays the hottest topic of discussion in the technology world is Big Data. Before analyzing the Opportunities and Microsoft’s offerings in big data the most important thing is to understand what and where is big data. Big data is data that is hard to manage with conventional resources i.e. single machine power, relational data base solutions, and it is unstructured, ever growing and sometimes at very high rate. The opportunities in big data can be well understood from the following statement: “By 2015, organization integrating high-value, diverse, new information types and sources into a coherent information management infrastructure will outperform their industry peers financially by more than 20%.” Information mgmt. in the 21st century Gartner, September 2011 Opportunities and Microsoft’s position As seen in the last few years companies like Google and Amazon have lead the web with their abilities to analyze data. Google’s Ad plus and Amazon’s online shopping site are good examples of it. Companies like Apache, LexisNexis Risk Solutions have offered big data solutions like Hadoop and HPCC for large data analysis or processing. But all of those solutions were Linux compatible. Hence big data analysis was inaccessible for companies running Windows and using Microsoft tools for [...]
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