Microsoft highlights big-data, analytics projects at TechFair
Microsoft showed off a number of its latest research projects at the Silicon Valley TechFair research fair in Mountain View on April 17.
Among the featured projects — some of which the company had touted previously, others not — were a couple of big data- and analytics-focused ones.
Naiad on Azure, described as a "rich, interactive cloud analytics project," is a .Net-based data-analysis project. Using Naiad, analysts can develop applications locally before deploying it to the cloud, according to the project description. (As far back as 2012, Microsoft officials were already describing Naiad as an "investigation of parallel dataflow computation in (the) spirit of Dryad/DryadLINQ, focused on incremental computation.)
