Guide to Migrating Big Data Workloads to Azure HDInsight

Many existing customers run Hadoop clusters to handle their big data workloads. These clusters require continual monitoring to ensure good performance, and maintenance to keep them patched and running safely. Running services in the cloud can alleviate many of these tasks, effectively offloading responsibility to the third party hosting the services. Azure HDInsight provides one such set of services for running big data workloads. The purpose of this guide is to describe how to migrate your workloads to HDInsight and optimize your solution to take full advantage of the services provided by Azure.  For questions & suggestions please reach out to : askhdinsight@microsoft.com