Introducing Windows Azure HDInsight

In Introducing Microsoft Azure HDInsight, we cover what big data really means, how you can use it to your advantage in your company or organization, and one of the services you can use to do that quickly—specifically, Microsoft’s HDInsight service.
We start with an overview of big data and Hadoop, but we don’t emphasize only concepts in this book—we want you to jump in and get your hands dirty working with HDInsight in a practical way. To help you learn and even implement HDInsight right away, we focus on a specific use case that applies to almost any organization and demonstrate a process that you can follow along with.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Big data, quick intro
Chapter 2: Getting started with HDInsight
Chapter 3: Programming HDInsight
Chapter 4: Working with HDInsight data
Chapter 5: What next?