Database Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure
2-1
shows you the Windows Azure Management Portal which is your dashboard to manage all your cloud
services in one place
Figure 2-1.
The Windows Azure Management Portal
The account and the subscription can be managed by the same individual or by different individuals or groups.
In a corporate enrollment, an account owner might create multiple subscriptions to give members of the technical
staff access to services. Because resource usage within an account billing is reported for each subscription, an
organization can use subscriptions to track expenses for projects, departments, regional offices, and so forth.
A detailed discussion of Windows Azure is outside the scope of this topic. If you are interested, you should visit
the Microsoft official site for Windows Azure:
Windows Azure HDInsight Service
The Windows Azure HDInsight service provides everything you need to quickly deploy, manage, and use Hadoop
clusters running on Windows Azure. If you have a Windows Azure subscription, you can deploy your HDInsight
clusters using the Azure management portal. Creating your cluster is nothing but provisioning a set of virtual
machines in Microsoft Cloud with the Apache Hadoop and its supporting projects bundled in it.
The HDInsight service gives you the ability to gain the full value of Big Data with a modern, cloud-based data
platform that manages data of any type, whether structured or unstructured, and of any size. With the HDInsight
service, you can seamlessly store and process data of all types through Microsoft's modern data platform that provides
simplicity, ease of management, and an open enterprise-ready Hadoop service, all running in the cloud. You can
analyze your Hadoop data directly in Excel, using new self-service business intelligence (BI) capabilities like Data
Explorer and Power View.
