Microsoft Announces That the First Azure Hosted Service Runs on Ubuntu Linux

Posted by hanuca on Feb 20, 2015 9:18 PM EDT
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Canonical, through John Zannos, VP Cloud Alliances, has proudly announced today, February 19, that the first ever Microsoft Azure hosted service will run on Linux, Ubuntu more specifically. This piece of news comes hot from the Strata + Hadoop World Conference, which takes place this week in California, USA.

The fact of the matter is that the news came from Microsoft, who announced the preview of Azure HDInsight on Ubuntu clusters yesterday, February 18, at the said event. This is definitely great news for Canonical, as their Ubuntu Linux operating system is getting recognized for being extremely reliable when handling Big Data.

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