Hadoop and Excel: A Delightful Pairing
March 9, 2012
Gizmo Crave recently reported on Microsoft combining forces with the big data analytics firm Hortonworks for a new Apache Hadoop project in the article “How About Accessing Hadoop Data Through Microsoft Excel?”
According to the article, the purpose of the partnership is to make Hadoop data analyzable to developers and business people via both a JavaScript framework and Microsoft Excel. Microsoft has committed to trying to make Hadoop a million dollar market within the next couple of years.
The articles states:
In an attempt to get Hadoop to work nicely with Windows, Microsoft has moved ahead of its computing tool called Dryad. This new strategy includes Hadoop distributions for Windows Servers and the Windows Azure cloud computing platform, as well as a connection to SQL Server.
For those interested in trying it out, Hadoop on Azure is available in developer preview mode this quarter and rumors say it will be generally available by June of this year. You have to admire the vision of Microsoft centric thinkers. Microsoft adherents are getting more open sourcey I believe.
Jasmine Ashton, March 9, 2012
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