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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Access Azure Blob Stores from HDInsight
Small Bites of Big Data Edit Mar 6, 2014: This is no longer necessary for HDInsight – you specify the storage accounts when you create the cluster and the rest happens auto-magically. See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cindygross/archive/2013/11/25/your-first-hdinsight-cluster-step-by-step.aspx or http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cindygross/archive/2013/12/06/sample-powershell-script-hdinsight-custom-create.aspx. One of the great enhancements in Microsoft’s HDInsight distribution of Hadoop is the ability to store and access HadoopContinue reading “Access Azure Blob Stores from HDInsight”
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General Hardware/OS/Network Guidelines for a SQL Box
I have put together some general guidelines for how you want a server to be delivered to the DBA team for a new SQL Server install. You won’t necessarily use all of them, but consider it a starting point for your SQL Server install standards. Places where it may be common to change the statements areContinue reading “General Hardware/OS/Network Guidelines for a SQL Box”
