Microsoft is preparing to increase its commitment to the open-source Apache Spark big-data processing engine this week at the Spark Summit in San Francisco. At the summit, officials from Microsoft will be offering further insight into its support for Spark with the company’s HDInsight, Cortana Intelligence Suite, Power BI and Microsoft R Server. Later this summer, R Server for HDInsight will no longer be in public preview and will be generally available. It will include Spark integration for both the cloud and on-premise version of HDInsight. Last April, Microsoft acquired Revolution Analytics for its R programming language that can be… [Continue Reading]