Trying out Hadoop on Microsoft Windows Azure

Windows Azure HDInsight Preview

To gain the full value of Big Data you need a modern data platform that manages data of any type, whether structured or unstructured, and of any size. This preview of Windows Azure HDInsight enables you to get up and running with your own Apache Hadoop™ cluster in the cloud in just minutes.

Microsoft’s end-to-end roadmap for Big Data embraces Apache Hadoop™ by distributing enterprise class, Hadoop-based solutions on both Windows Server and Windows Azure. To learn more about Microsoft’s roadmap for Big Data see http://www.microsoft.com/bigdata/



First of all create an account in windows Azure