MapReduce

This video walks you through the simple steps of signing up for Windows Azure HDInsight preview, creating your first cluster, and running two Map Reduce samples.  If you are trying the HDInsight service yourself, please make sure you shutdown the cluster when you no longer need…

This is a general Introduction to  Big Data, Hadoop, and Microsoft's new Hadoop-based cloud Service called Windows Azure HDInsight.  This presentation is divided into two videos, this is Part 2.  We cover the specifics of Windows Azure HDInsight Service in…

This is a general Introduction to  Big Data, Hadoop, and Microsoft's new Hadoop-based Service called Windows Azure HDInsight.  This presentation is divided into two videos, this is Part 1.  We cover Big Data and Hadoop in this part of the presentation.    The…

MySpace just released a MapReduce framework for .NET called Qizmt as an open source project.  MapReduce is a software framework "to support distributed computing on large data sets on clusters of computers" Wikipedia.  I interviewed Mikhael Berlyant, Executive Director…