Organizations are facing a challenge when it comes to extracting business value from ever growing data, which includes files, audio, video, images, social media, text, sensors and clickstreams. Data is growing and varying in such a fast pace that organizations are finding it difficult to store and process. Organizations are looking for a robust big data solution that helps them simplify the storage, management and analysis and at the same time give them the ability to scale.
Microsoft’s Analytics Platform System (APS) & HDInsight will help to overcome these challenges. Azure HDInsight is Microsoft's Hadoop based service that offers 100% compatibility with Apache Hadoop. HDInsight enables clients to derive business insights on structured, semi-structured and unstructured data of any size and form. HDInsight clusters can be easily scale on demand to store terabytes and petabytes of data.