Microsoft released a series of cloud services

The once defined definition of Microsoft Windows Azure is an easy question to answer and is still true today. Microsoft again added new online services to Azure. Compared with other cloud platforms, Azure short board in the past is mainly reflected in the application of online construction services. But just this week. Microsoft has made up for the deficiencies in this area, Microsoft released a series of cloud services for our convenience.

At the same time Microsoft is also more and more development tools into its own platform, which allows developers to more freely run their favorite services. This series of initiatives all indicate that Microsoft is challenging cloud platforms such as Amazon.

Compared to the past, Microsoft is becoming more and more open. In addition to its own .NET, applications written in Java, Python, Ruby on Rails, and PHP are now available on Azure. At the same time, Azure has adopted open source platforms such as Node.js and Hadoop.

Currently, Azure can deploy and run Windows Server and Linux virtual machines in minutes. Migrate workloads without changing the existing code. Connect your internal corporate network securely to virtual machines that run in the public cloud. Windows Azure provides a fully compliant, enterprise-ready Hadoop service. Querying SQL databases, semi-structured data sources, and unstructured data sources. Azure provides simple management and integration with Active Directory and System Center.

Hadoop version of Microsoft is now developed to "customer technology preview version of" stage. This means that Microsoft is accepting a customer base rating and the official version is expected to be available by mid-2012. Microsoft's Hadoop is based on Windows Server platform or Microsoft cloud platform Azure.

In this release of version 2.0, the product core includes MapReduce, HDFS, and Hadoop components Pig and Hive. Microsoft's goal is to be compatible with all Hadoop components. Components such as Zookeeper, HBase, HCatalog, and Mahout in the Hadoop ecosystem are also attached to Microsoft's Hadoop version.

Hadoop distributed file systems based on Azure also have disaster recovery capabilities. The new version also allows the inclusion of data linked to Office Sharepoint. Hadoop over Azure also works with Mahout, an open source Hadoop project.