This was originally posted at ZDNet's Between the Lines. A correction has been made to this story. See details below. Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a ...

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In February, we wrote about a leaked slide that revealed the Microsoft Hadoop roadmap: As you can see, the roadmap indicates Microsoft is planning to simultaneously deliver the final version of Hadoop ...

Rackspace on Monday became the latest vendor to offer Hadoop-as-a-service through Hortonworks, positioning it as a way for customers to take advantage of the big data technology on a pay-as-you-go ...

Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a free software framework, to crunch tons of data. The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is designed for businesses ...