A Microsoft roadmap slide sheds some additional details on the scope of the work the company is doing to integrate Hadoop with Windows Azure and Windows Server.



From All About Microsoft:

Microsoft announced last fall that the company was partnering with Hortonworks to create Windows Azure and Windows Server Hadoop distributions. Company officials also shared via a short video on Microsoft’s Channel 9 that Microsoft was looking beyond those distributions themselves and was working on ways to integrate bidirectionally with the Hadoop file system and Hadoop tools like Sqoop and Flume. Microsoft officials have used the codename “Isotope” to refer to coming suite of Microsoft products and utilities that will support Hadoop on Windows Azure and Windows Server.

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