Hadoop on Azure : Introduction by BrunoTerkaly.
From the post:
I am in complete awe on how this technology is resonating with today’s developers. If I invite developers for an evening event, Big Data is always a sellout.
This particular post is about getting everyone up to speed about what Hadoop is at a high level.
Big data is a technology that manages voluminous amount of unstructured and semi-structured data.
Due to its size and semi-structured nature, it is inappropriate for relational databases for analysis.
Big data is generally in the petabytes and exabytes of data.
A very high level view but a series to watch as the details emerge on using Hadoop on Azure.