Microsoft bets on Apache Spark to power its big data and analytics services

 Microsoft today announced that it is making a serious commitment to the open source Apache Spark cluster computing framework. After dipping its toes into the Spark ecosystem last year, the company today launched a number of Spark-based services out of preview and announced that the on-premises version of R Server for Hadoop (which uses the increasingly popular open source R language for… Read More

from Microsoft – TechCrunch http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/06/microsoft-bets-on-apache-spark-to-power-its-big-data-and-analytics-services/?ncid=rss