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Running Hadoop in Azure

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Created by Andrew Jackson on Jan 09, 2012 · last edited by Ivan Vujic · on Jan 10, 2012 (view history) · 3 versions

Microsoft have started supporting Hadoop on Azure, so this may be an alternative to Installing Local Platform Instance for some folks.

- Basic info -

Official announcement:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2011/10/12/microsoft-expands-data-platform-to-help-customers-manage-the-new-currency-of-the-cloud.aspx

Microsoft, Hadoop and Big Data

http://blogs.technet.com/b/port25/archive/2011/10/11/microsoft-hadoop-and-big-data.aspx

MSDN Blogs > Distributed Development > Hadoop in Azure

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mariok/archive/2011/05/11/hadoop-in-azure.aspx