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 connecting your Hadoop on Azure cluster to query data against Amazon S3. To configure Hadoop on Azure to connect to it, below are the steps [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Connectivity’
Connecting Hadoop on Azure to your Amazon S3 Blob storage
Posted in BigData, Cloud, tagged amazon s3, AWS, Configuration, Connectivity, interactive javascript on March 21, 2012 | 4 Comments »
SQL Server/PDW Hadoop Connectors
Posted in BigData, SQL, tagged Connectivity on August 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Stargate-SG1 Quote from SG-1 episode Bad Guys: (Vala is attempting to power the stargate with a Goa’uld bomb.) Vala: There’s a 70% chance that if we dial manually we’ll be able to establish a connection, and a 50% chance the bomb will just go off. Lt. Col. Mitchell: That a 120%. Vala: Well there’s some [...]
Delegation, Claims, Active Directory….Again?! Frak!
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Claims, Connectivity, FAQ, Geneva on May 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As you may have noted in my original posting Delegation, Claims, Active Directory…Oh My!…Aw Crap!, it quickly described how to solve issues surrounding the delegation of the claims token within an Active Directory environment. In it I referenced Lee Graber’s excellent posting: The data connection uses Windows Authentication and user credentials could not be delegated. [...]
Dude, Where’s my PowerPivot workbook?
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Connectivity, Excel Services, SharePoint on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In homage to Rob Collie’s blog posting style (yes!…he has style, he has grace, …) and of course the movie “Dude, Where’s my Car?”, let’s ask a new question: Dude, where’s my PowerPivot workbook? And before you ask, we’re not talking about searching for the workbook somewhere in your “My Documents” folder, USB drive or [...]
Ramblings about missing time … and #PowerPivot sneak peek!
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Book, Configuration, Connectivity, Design, Excel Services, FAQ, Internals, SharePoint, Troubleshooting on April 5, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Wow, I just checked and its been more than a month since I did my last blog post! So for starters, apologies for the lack of cool PowerPivot stuff on this blog. But it’s not like I haven’t been tweeting about PowerPivot…thank goodness I can easily retweet or type 140 characters! (follow me @dennylee) But [...]
Troubleshooting #PowerPivot Excel Services connectivity
Posted in PowerPivot, tagged Connectivity, Excel Services, SharePoint on November 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
You’re on your way to PowerPivot for SharePoint functionality – you’ve uploaded your PowerPivot for Excel workbook to your SharePoint PowerPivot Gallery. You view the thumbnails of your report and they look nice. From the thumbnail, you click on the report you want to see, and the report renders nicely. But then you [...]

