Amazon EMR and Azure HDInsight: A Comparison
By the end of this year, spending on IT infrastructure products to be deployed in cloud environments will be $37.1 billion, International Data Corporation predicts. According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker , released this month, enterprise spending on Cloud Services will increase about 15 percent over last year. Public cloud infrastructure makes up the largest piece of the pie, with spending in that arena expected to be $23.3 billion, a nearly 19 percent increase. One of the main reasons behind the exponential growth of Cloud market is association of Cloud with Hadoop. There have been hot discussions about running Hadoop in Cloud environments, while Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce continued with enhancements with its base platform, Azure too came with HDInsights’ improvizations. Increasing awareness about Hadoop in Cloud also bought some limelight to the projects like Apache Whirr and Netflix’s Genie. Recent announcements at the Hadoo...