Level: Intermediate

Andrew Brust

Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence

Datameer

As Big Data starts to move beyond its hype cycle, Hadoop is reaching critical mass as a true Enterprise computing tool. Microsoft's flavor of Hadoop, Azure HDInsight, has matured a great deal as well. It's now available in Linux versions as well as its original Windows distribution and has added support for Apache Spark, which changes the game significantly. Come to this session to learn what Hadoop and Spark are, how they work, how to get them running on the Azure cloud and how to integrate them with SQL Server, Power BI and Excel.