{"id":1803,"date":"2013-10-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:49:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:49:07","slug":"windows-azure-hdinsight-released-for-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2013\/10\/28\/windows-azure-hdinsight-released-for-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Azure HDInsight Released for GA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Microsoft announced the <strong>general availability of Windows Azure HDInsight, <\/strong>its cloud-based distribution of Hadoop. Further expanding on Microsoft\u2019s big data strategy, Microsoft CVP Quentin Clark will deliver a keynote at O\u2019Reilly Strata + Hadoop World tomorrow, where he will discuss Microsoft\u2019s vision to democratize big data by providing easy to use tools and a unified data platform. Clark further detailed this approach in a post on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/microsoft_blog\/archive\/2013\/10\/28\/announcing-windows-azure-hdinsight-where-big-data-meets-the-cloud.aspx\">Official Microsoft Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News Highlights from \u00a0Strata + Hadoop World Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Windows Azure HDInsight<\/strong>, available today, is an open and flexible platform that provides 100% Apache Hadoop as a service in the cloud. HDInsight builds on top of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) to ensure full compatibility with Apache Hadoop. HDInsight offers customers:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Insights with familiar tools: Through integration with Microsoft\u2019s business intelligence tools, HDInsight enables customers to easily analyze data in Excel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Deployment Agility<\/strong>: With HDInsight customers can deploy and provision a Hadoop cluster, no matter the size, in minutes instead of hours or days, without losing any data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Enterprise-ready Hadoop<\/strong>: HDInsight offers enterprise-class security and manageability with a secure node in every cluster and extensive support for PowerShell scripting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<strong>Rich developer experience<\/strong>: Developers have a choice of languages including .NET, Java and others. .NET developers can exploit the full power of language-integrated query with LINQ to Hive, and database developers can use existing skills to query and transform data through Hive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Customers such as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/casestudies\/Case_Study_Detail.aspx?casestudyid=710000003368\">Christian Hansen<\/a>, City of Barcelona<\/strong><strong>, and <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/casestudies\/Windows-Azure\/Virginia-Polytechnic-Institute-and-State-University\/University-Transforms-Life-Sciences-Research-with-Big-Data-Solution-in-the-Cloud\/710000003381\"><strong>Virginia Tech<\/strong><\/a> are using HDInsight to give their data the power of Hadoop and the scalability of Windows Azure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Interested customers can begin using Windows Azure HDInsight <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=286602&amp;WT.mc_id=Blog_SQL_Strata_HDInsight\">now<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information on today\u2019s news, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/microsoft_blog\/archive\/2013\/10\/28\/announcing-windows-azure-hdinsight-where-big-data-meets-the-cloud.aspx\">Clark\u2019s post<\/a> on the\u00a0Official Microsoft Blog. 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