Best Practices: Hadoop migration to Azure HDInsight

Editor's Notes

1. Azure HDInsight is a secure and managed platform for building data lakes on Azure based on the Apache Hadoop and Spark frameworks. So, what all does HDInsight have to offer? Reliable Open Source analytics with an Industry leading SLAHDInsight allows you to easily spin up open source cluster types guaranteed with the industry’s best 99.9% SLA and 24/7 support. We guarantee this SLA for the entire big data solution, not just the VM instances. HDInsight is architected for full redundancy and high availability including head node replication, data geo-replication, and built-in standby NameNode making HDInsight resilient to critical failures not addressed in standard Hadoop implementations. Azure also offers cluster monitoring and 24x7 enterprise support backed by Microsoft and Hortonworks with 37 combined committers for Hadoop core, more than all other managed cloud providers combined to support your deployment and the ability to fix and commit code back to Hadoop. Enterprise Grade Security & MonitoringHDInsight protects your data assets and easily extends your on-premise security and governance controls to the cloud. We feature single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication and seamless management of millions of identities through Azure Active Directory. You can authorize users and groups with fine-grained access control policies over all your enterprise data with Apache Ranger. HDInsight meets HIPAA, PCI, SOC compliance, ensuring your enterprise data assets are always protected with the highest security and regulatory compliance. To ensure the highest level of business continuity, HDInsight extends capabilities for alerting, monitoring, defining pre-emptive actions, and enhanced workload protection through native integration with Azure Operations Management Suite (OMS). Most Productive platform for developers and scientists HDInsight offers developers tailored experiences through rich productivity suites for Hadoop & Spark with integrated development environments using Visual Studio, Eclipse, and IntelliJ supporting Scala, Python, R, Java, and .Net. HDInsight gives data scientists the ability to create narratives that combine code, statistical equations, and visualizations that tell a story about the data through integration to the two most popular notebooks: Jupyter and Zeppelin. HDInsight is also the only managed cloud Hadoop solution with integration to Microsoft R Server. Multi-threaded math libraries and transparent parallelization in R Server means handling up to 1000x more data and up to 50x faster speeds than open source R—helping you train more accurate models for better predictions than previously possible. Cost effective cloud scaleHDInsight has decoupled compute and storage, enabling you to cost-effectively scale workloads up or down, independent of storage. Local storage can still be used for caching and fast I/O. Spark and interactive Hive users can choose SSD memory for interactive performance; while Kafka users can retain all streaming data in premium managed disks. You only pay for the compute and storage you use and are given the ability to choose any Azure VM types that enables the best utilization of resources. A recent study showed HDInsight delivering 63% lower TCO than deploying Hadoop on premises over 5 years.* Integration with leading Productivity ApplicationsIn the broader ecosystem for Hadoop, there is a thriving market of independent software vendors (ISVs) who provide value added solutions. Through a unique design where every cluster is extended with edge nodes and script action, HDInsight lets customers spin up Hadoop and Spark clusters pre-integrated and pre-tuned with any ISV application out-of-the-box. Datameer, Cask, AtScale, StreamSets are few such applications, which are very popular on the HDInsight platform today. Easy for administrators to manageWith HDInsight, administrators can deploy Hadoop in the cloud without buying new hardware or incurring other up-front costs. There’s also no time-consuming installation or set up. There is also no need to patch the operating system or upgrade the Hadoop versions. Azure does it for you. Launch your first cluster in minutes.
2. So, to bring it all together, here's where Microsoft has invested, across these four areas: identity and access management, information protection, threat protection, and security management. We’ve put a tremendous amount of investment into these, and the way it shows up is across a pretty broad array of product areas and features. Our Identity and Access Management tools enable you to take an identity-based approach to security, and establish truly conditional access policies Our Information Protection solutions help you apply protection that travels with the information as it moves around—both inside and outside your organization Our Threat Protection capabilities are built in to the platform, so you can strengthen both pre-breach protection with deep capabilities across e-mail, collaboration services, and end points including hardware based protection; and post-breach detection that includes memory and kernel based protection and response with automation. And our Security Management tools give you the visibility and more importantly the guidance to manage policy centrally