Where are the Women in Technology? The Event This year’s Boise Code Camp has an exciting new panel session: “Where are the Women in Technology?” We have a great lineup of women who will help us all understand why women in tech matter to your bottom line. The panel invites everyone of any gender toContinue reading “Where are the Women in Technology? #BoiseWIT”
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Create HDInsight Cluster in Azure Portal
Creating an HDInsight cluster from the Azure portal is very easy. However, sometimes you want all the choices and best practices explained as well as the “how to”. I have created a series of slides with audio recordings to walk you through the process and choices. They are available as sessions 1-8 of “Create HDInsightContinue reading “Create HDInsight Cluster in Azure Portal”
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Master Choosing the Right Project for Hadoop
Hadoop is the hot buzzword of the Big Data world, and many IT people are being told “go create a Hadoop cluster and do some magic”. It’s hard to know where to start or which projects are a good fit. The information available online is sparse, often conflicting, and usually focused on how to solveContinue reading “Master Choosing the Right Project for Hadoop”
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AzureCopy to the Rescue for an S3 to Azure Blob Copy!
This week I helped a client move files from AWS S3 to Azure Storage blobs. Sounds simple, right? Here’s the tricky part… While there are both Azure and AWS cmdlets for PowerShell, they don’t cooperate. Neither has a cmdlet that accepts credentials from the other and neither accepts arbitrary URLs from outside their own cloud.Continue reading “AzureCopy to the Rescue for an S3 to Azure Blob Copy!”
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PowerShell works for Amazon AWS S3 too!
Technorati Tags: azure blob store,azure storage,aws,s3,neal analytics,windows azure,powershell More and more we have to work with data in many different locations. This week I got to work with S3 files that were moving to Azure blob storage. I was surprised to find that Amazon has published AWS cmdlets for PowerShell. It took me a littleContinue reading “PowerShell works for Amazon AWS S3 too!”
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Understanding WASB and Hadoop Storage in Azure
Yesterday we learned Why WASB Makes Hadoop on Azure So Very Cool. Now let’s dive deeper into Windows Azure storage and WASB. I’ll answer some of the common questions I get when people first try to understand how WASB is the same as and different from HDFS. What is HDFS? The Hadoop Distributed File SystemContinue reading “Understanding WASB and Hadoop Storage in Azure”
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Why WASB Makes Hadoop on Azure So Very Cool
Data. It’s all about the data. We want to make more data driven decisions. We want to keep more data so we can make better decisions. We want that data stored cheaply, easily accessible, and quickly ingested. Hadoop promises to help with all those things. However, when you deal with Hadoop on-premises you have aContinue reading “Why WASB Makes Hadoop on Azure So Very Cool”
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Azure Maximums and Resource Usage from PowerShell
Technorati Tags: Azure,PowerShell Have you ever struggled to find out how many VM cores, HDInsight cores, storage accounts, or other Azure resources your subscription is set to allow or how many you actually use? Maybe you want to use this information in your automation scripts to avoid trying to create components for which you don’tContinue reading “Azure Maximums and Resource Usage from PowerShell”
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Get HDInsight Properties with PowerShell
Small Bites of Big Data from AzureCAT You’ve created your HDInsight Hadoop clusters and now you want to know exactly what you have out there in Azure. Maybe you want to pull the key information into a repository periodically as a reference for future troubleshooting, comparisons, or billing. Maybe you just need to get aContinue reading “Get HDInsight Properties with PowerShell”
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Use Additional Storage Accounts with HDInsight Hive
When you create an HDInsight Hadoop cluster you pass in one or more storage accounts and their associated keys. This allows you to access the files on all associated storage accounts from the cluster. If you want to use public storage that isn’t passed in at create time that’s easy – simply supply the storageContinue reading “Use Additional Storage Accounts with HDInsight Hive”
