New enhancements to HDInsight

We've made the following updates to HDInsight service with our 6/24/2014 release:

• HDInsight 3.1 (HDP 2.1) is now generally available and is the default version for new clusters.
• HBase clusters, which are available in preview, can now be created in just 3 clicks from Azure Management Portal.
• Apache Mahout is now pre-installed on HDInsight 3.1 clusters.
• Hive queries can use Tez in HDInsight 3.1 to gain substantial performance improvements.

Check out the HDInsight release notes for more information.