Category Archives: Cloud
Why use Blob Storage with HDInsight on Azure
By Brad Sarsfield and Denny Lee One of the questions we are commonly asked concerning HDInsight, Azure, and Azure Blob Storage is why one should store their data into Azure … Continue reading
Oh where, oh where did my S3N go? (in Windows Azure HDInsight) Oh where, Oh where, can it be?!
As noted in my previous post Connecting Hadoop on Azure to your Amazon S3 Blob storage, you could easily setup HDInsight Azure to go against your Amazon S3 / S3N … Continue reading
Connecting Hadoop on Azure to your Amazon S3 Blob storage
When working with Hadoop on Azure, you may be used to the idea of putting your data in the Cloud. In addition to using Azure Blob Storage, another option is … Continue reading
Cool Hadoop on Azure How To Videos by @bradoop
A big shout out to Brad Sarsfield (@bradoop) for creating these great How-To videos for Hadoop on Azure. How To: Upload Data and Use the WordCount Sample with Hadoop … Continue reading
Connecting PowerPivot to Hadoop on Azure – Self Service BI to Big Data in the Cloud
. “I caught a fish thiiiiis biiig” – On stage with Ted Kummert during the PASS 2011 Keynote on Big Data (thanks to Karen Lopez @datachick for the pic) . … Continue reading
An Azure Elephant Never Forgets…
All your HBase are belong to us Friends, coders, beta testers – lend me your data! . We have more tag lines like that all within the Hadoop on Azure … Continue reading
Netflix rocks–from great entertainment to showcasing how to develop for the Cloud
. . A partial screenshot of my Netflix Top 10 selections – which of course includes Doctor Who and Stargate Universe. . . . . As a subscriber, I’m definitely … Continue reading
