| Wednesday, February 20, 2013 | |  | | Doug Henschen | | | Microsoft's Big Data Strategy: An Insider's View There's a lot more to Microsoft's big data strategy than a Hadoop partnership with Hortonworks. In fact, Hadoop is just the beginning of what Microsoft Technical Fellow Dave Campbell describes as "an information production line." You don't hear much about Microsoft in the big data market, but the company wants the world to know it has big plans. In fact, it's living big data through its Bing search engine, Office 365 services and Azure cloud platform. Those businesses have helped Microsoft build deep expertise around analytics and machine learning that the company wants to bring to big data practitioners. It also has a data market on Azure, unsung in-database analytics capabilities and a High-Performance Computing platform that Campbell says will help customers speed the last mile of deep analysis. In this Q&A interview, Campbell, VP of product development for SQL Server, offers a closer look at Microsoft's big data thinking and what it's working on behind the scenes. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AND POST YOUR THOUGHTS | |  COMMENTARY MicroStrategy Doubles Down On Mobile, Data Visualization By Cindi Howson Business intelligence vendor focuses on mobile, cloud, social, and visual analysis amid a tight battle with SAP, Oracle, QlikTech, and Tableau. P&G CIO: There's A Better Way To Create Software By Chris Murphy Procter & Gamble CIO Filippo Passerini thinks cooperation among the likes of Disney, FedEx and Goldman Sachs could push software vendors to build more relevant analytics software--and build it faster. Dell's Future: 3 Wild Cards CIOs Should Understand By David Rutchik As Dell pursues going private, Microsoft's $2 billion stake isn't the only thing that should give enterprises pause. Hacking, Privacy Laws: Time To Reboot By Mathew J. Schwartz Recent cases highlight serious flaws in current privacy and cyber-abuse legislation, enabling prosecutors to wield a hammer when a stick will do. |  JOIN THE CONVERSATION Posted By Chris Murphy: "Don't underestimate the cultural change needed to put such techniques to work in the day-to-day practice of healthcare. Very practically, what's the right step in the patient interaction to bring in the machine? How do you share the results, and debate the machine when your diagnosis goes against it? Or instill confidence, if you're just agreeing with a machine? Much left to learn." In reply to: IBM's Watson Could Be Healthcare Game Changer View Entire Response | Post Your Own Reply | | NEWS & ANALYSIS REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS FEATURED REPORTS Informed CIO: Cloud Standards In this report, we'll explain the drivers for cloud standards, discuss the importance of evaluating whether any given standard is worthwhile, walk through the main cloud standards (formal, de facto, and otherwise) by category, and give a sneak peek at results from our new InformationWeek Standardization Survey. Finally, we asked six thought leaders in the field for predictions--their answers might surprise you. Download Now (Registration Required)
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