Pro Microsoft HDInsight is a complete guide to deploying and using Apache Hadoop on the
Microsoft Windows Azure Platforms. The information in this book enables you to process enormous
volumes of structured as well as non-structured data easily using HDInsight which is
Microsoft's own distribution of Apache Hadoop. Furthermore the blend of Infrastructure as a
Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings available through Windows Azure lets
you take advantage of Hadoop's processing power without the worry of creating configuring
maintaining or managing your own cluster. With the data explosion that is soon to happen the
open source Apache Hadoop Framework is gaining traction and it benefits from a huge ecosystem
that has risen around the core functionalities of the Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS(TM))
and Hadoop Map Reduce. Pro Microsoft HDInsight equips you with the knowledge confidence and
technique to configure and manage this ecosystem on Windows Azure. The book is an excellent
choice for anyone aspiring to be a data scientist or data engineer putting you a step ahead in
the data mining field.Guides you through installation and configuration of an HDInsight cluster
on Windows Azure Provides clear examples of configuring and executing Map Reduce jobs Helps you
consume data and diagnose errors from the Windows Azure HDInsight Service
