We already saw the configuration of Hadoop/HBase on Windows, so we will look at the distribution or service that Microsoft provides, HDinsight, which is a cloud-based Apache Hadoop service provided by Microsoft. It says:
Scale to petabytes on demand
Process unstructured and semistructured data
Develop in Java, .NET and more
No hardware to buy or maintain
Pay only for what you use
Spin up a Hadoop cluster in minutes
Visualize your Hadoop data in Excel
Easily integrate on-premises Hadoop clusters
It also provides the Hadoop Azure service for Hadoop.
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More can be studied at http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/hdinsight/.