http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2012/02/20/big-data-a-microsoft-tools-approach.aspx(As with all of these types of posts, check the date of the latest update I&rsquo;ve made here. Anything older than 6 months is probably out of date, given the speed with which we release new features into Windows and SQL Azure) I don&rsquo;t normallyen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2012/02/20/big-data-a-microsoft-tools-approach.aspx#10289680Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:59:43 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10289680Bill Ramos<p>Found another tool for analyzing graphs called Pegasus - <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pegasus/">www.cs.cmu.edu/~pegasus</a>. This tool works on top of Hadoop. </p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>Bill</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10289680" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2012/02/20/big-data-a-microsoft-tools-approach.aspx#10273227Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:34:04 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10273227Bill Ramos<p>Hi Buck,</p> <p> &nbsp; &nbsp;A couple of other tools to consider on the open source analysis side: R for statistical - <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.r-project.org/">http://www.r-project.org/</a> and Mahout for data mining - <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://mahout.apache.org/">http://mahout.apache.org/</a>.</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>Bill</p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10273227" width="1" height="1">