If you want to access Windows Azure Blob Storage same as a drive on your development machine you sure can do it. Gladinet provide the application to mount Windows Azure Blob Storage directly as a Network Drive so you can access blob directly from your...

Microsoft Distribution of Apache Hadoop comes with Hive Support along with an Interactive Hive shell where users can run their Hive queries immediately without adding specific configuration. The Apache distribution running on Windows Azure has built in...

In Hadoop cluster, namenode communicate with all the other nodes. Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure have the following XML file which includes all the primary settings for Hadoop: C:\Apps\Dist\conf\HDFS-SITE.XML <?xml version="1.0...

Microsoft distribution to Apache Hadoop comes by direct connectivity to cloud storage i.e. Windows Azure Blob storage or Amazon S3. Here we will learn how to connect your Windows Azure Storage directly from your Hadoop Cluster. To learn how to connect...

Microsoft distribution to Apache Hadoop comes by direct connectivity to cloud storage i.e. Windows Azure Blob storage or Amazon S3. Here we will learn how to connect your Windows Azure Storage directly from your Hadoop Cluster. As you know Windows...

Once your provide following information to setup your Hadoop cluster in Azure: Cluster DNS Name Type of Cluster Small – 4 Nodes – 2TB diskspace Medium – 8 Nodes – 4 TB diskspace Large – 16 nodes –...

SQL Azure team announced today about the release of a new experimental cloud service, " SQL Azure Compatibility Assessment ”. This tool is a created by SQL Azure Labs and if you are considering moving your SQL Server databases to SQL Azure, you...

Microsoft distribution of Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure, let you run JavaScript Map/Reduce jobs directly from web based Interactive JavaScript Console. To start with lets write a JavaScript code for Map/Reduce wordcount jobs as below: FileName...

Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure is integrated with a web-based interactive JavaScript console, which allows you to perform Perform HDFS operations, including uploading/reading files to/from the HDFS Run MapReduce programs from .js scripts or JAR...

After you created your Hadoop cluster in Windows Azure, you can remote into it to start the Map/Reduce administration. Most of the processing log & HDFS data is already available over port 50030 and 50070 however, you can run bunch of standard Hadoop...

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In this article, I will help you writing your own WordCount Hadoop Job and then deploy it to Windows Azure Cluster for further processing. Let’s create Java code file as “AvkashWordCount.java” as below: package...

In this section we will run the same 10GB sorting Hadoop job with TERASORT option. With TeraSort option the parameters are changed as below: With above parameters couple of things to remember: You must have /example/data/10GB-sort-input...

This example consists of the 3 map/reduce applications that Owen O'Malley and Arun Murthy used win the annual general purpose (daytona) terabyte sort benchmark @ sortbenchmark.org . This sample is part of prebuilt package in your Hadoop on Azure portal...

When you are running Apache Hadoop job in Windows Azure, you have ability to remote into the main node (It is a virtual machine) and then perform all the regular tasks i.e.: Hadoop Map/Reduce Job Administration HDFS management Regular Name...

In this example I am starting a new Hadoop Job with few intentional errors to understand the processing better. You can go to Samples and deploy the Wordcount sample job to your cluster. Verify all the parameters and then you can start the job as below...

Once you have created a cluster in Windows Azure, you will have a few prebuilt samples provided in your account so let’s select “Samples” as below: In the Hadoop Samples gallery lets select “Pi Estimator” sample...

Once you have applied for Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure CTP account you can create a new cluster using this information. If you want to learn more about Hadoop on Azure CTP, visit my previous blog here . After you have got Hadoop on Azure CTP...

Windows Azure Cloud Services Newly Designed Windows Azure Developer Center Article Tutorial: Running a Python Web Application in Windows Azure Article Tutorial: Running the Mongoose Web Server in Windows Azure...

If you have a requirement and decided to modify VM registry keys, you have two options: Do it from a Standalone Startup task This modification will be completed even before your role start Be sure to run the startup task as in elevated mode...

Windows Azure team created a detailed hands on lab to help everyone who wants to move their application to Windows Azure cloud. Each of the Hands-On Labs is separate and stand-alone so you can choose which ones you want to use, and you can work through...

Map of the book: What is this book about: An Introduction to Claims explains what a claim is and provides general rules on what makes good claims and how to incorporate them into your application. It’s probably a good idea that you read...

What is Hadoop Streaming: Start learning about Hadoop Streaming: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/streaming.html Prepare yourself with F# and General MapReduce code: Exploring MapReduce with F# http://weblogs...

Windows Azure Plugin for Eclipse with Java, December 2011 CTP is now available for public download at http://dl.windowsazure.com/eclipse . The December CTP is a major update to the Eclipse tooling that was last released last June. It introduces a number...

Windows Azure Service Team is proud to announce that the first public CTP of Service Bus EAI & EDI is now LIVE at http://portal.appfabriclabs.com . You can see the official announcement here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2011...