Microsoft announced that they have selected Ubuntu as the operating system for their Cloud-based Big Data services. Microsoft’s fulfills its aim to enhance its own cross-platform aspirations that will accelerate a move towards Hybrid Cloud Computing. The collaboration between Microsoft and Canonical to create the option to run Azure HDInsight workloads on Ubuntu or Windows gives Azure customers flexibility in their big data processing decisions, both on premise, and in the cloud, Ubuntu said in a blog post. Azure Data Lake Analytics: A service built on Apache Yarn that dynamically scales the customer environment based on need.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/azure-hdinsight-cloud-computing.html