Speaker(s):  Tim Mallalieu 

Duration: 60 minutes

Track: Big Data Innovations and Integration

Microsoft HDInsight helps you embrace Hadoop - Microsoft's big data platform for helping you enrich your data through discovery and advanced analytics - enabling you to seamlessly manage data of any type or size. With HDInsight, you can easily extend your data warehouse to include unstructured data with Hadoop on Windows Azure or Windows Server. In this session, you'll learn how to provision a Hadoop cluster on Windows Azure in minutes and then easily manage, monitor, and scale it. Come see how to enable all users to glean insights from their data, whether structured or unstructured, through familiar tools such as Excel.