Create a cluster with Windows Azure HDInsight Service (video)

In this episode Chris Risner and Nick Harris are joined by Kevin Lam, Principal Program Manager on the Windows Azure Scheduler. The Windows Azure Scheduler allows you to invoke actions - such as calling HTTP/S endpoints or posting a message to a storage queue - on any schedule. With Scheduler, you create jobs in the cloud that reliably call services both inside and outside of Windows Azure and run those jobs on demand, on a regularly recurring schedule, or designate them for a future date.
In this episode Kevin demonstrates how to use the Windows Azure portal to:
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Can you use the scheduler to start/stop your own Iaas Virtual Machines? Example?
Great stuff. I've been looking out for this type of service for quite a while. Keep up the awesome work and looking forward to the evolution of the portal interface / capabilities of this service.
What is resolution of video stream? It's extremelly fuzzy, impossible to figure out what is happening on screen
The fuzzy screen would be network/bandwith related w/ adaptive streaming. You can download the source high quality video here http://media.ch9.ms/ch9/9ed2/a65c2919-0718-459a-8ffb-65b9d9909ed2/CloudCover127WindowsAzureScheduler_Source.wmv
The fuzziness seems to be a "property" of the SilverLight version of the video. When set to "Auto" the player will default to smooth streaming, and be fuzzy (I have plenty of bandwidth so that doesn't seem to be the cause). If I manually switch to HTML5 as format I instantly get a much crisper version of the video.
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