What is HDInsight?

Introduction to HDInsight Service

Microsoft Azure HDInsight Service

Microsoft and Hortonworks are working together to create Azure HDInsight.A fully managed Apache “Hadoop” and Apache “Spark” cloud service that has been hardend for the enterprise and simpler for the users. As a managed Hadoop-as-a-service offering, HDInsight was designed to make Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark simple to use, with a lower manageability cost and higher developer productivity.  

Why Microsoft Azure HDInsight?

Today customer challenges with real-time large volume of unstructured data is very different then ever before.

Today's data really doesn't fit into traditional relational database approach as 85% of new data are unstructured. customers need to managed all these data alongside their relational data in data sets as well in warehouses.

Volume of Data are exploding (Large volume of Data) from various social media platform, websites, online feedback etc.

Companies are using real time data to change, build and optimize their business services as well to understand market trend. these data are High Velocity and organizations today don't have staff with skill or experience (Lack of skill) to deal with these challenges.

As organizations scale out the amount of data they are capturing, manageability of on-premise infrastructure is challenging. Organizations need more IT staff to deploy and administer the solutions.

resources:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn749853.aspx

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/hdinsight/hdinsight-hadoop-introduction
https://hortonworks.com/datasheet/microsoft-azure-hdinsight/