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HDInsight 2020—Modified Distributions, Management Tools

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  • HDInsight updates Hadoop and Spark cluster types with Microsoft-modified distributions, providing greater integration with Azure services.
  • Microsoft-modified distributions could offer better support but also make it more difficult to migrate away from HDInsight.
  • Service updates automate scaling and improve data security to help enterprises.
  • Plans include simplified provisioning and lower-cost server options.

Azure HDInsight is a Microsoft-hosted database service based on Apache’s Hadoop open-source software framework, a popular solution for managing and analyzing Big Data. Big Data, as the name suggests, is a source of large volumes of data, such as Web logs, streaming media posts, stock market trades, and machine sensor data. Big Data can have a variety of content types and is often captured and processed at high speed. Recent updates improve HDInsight’s use and interaction with other Azure services, which should interest enterprises considering Azure as a destination for existing or new workloads.

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