Resources for Hadoop on Windows Azure

hadooponazure

Hadooponazure.com is strictly a private CTP  for microsoft's  hadoop distro.   It supports HIVE, PIG, a javascript console,  a web portal.  You can also terminal service into the actual clusters as needed.   There's a lot of tutorials in the training kit, there's a deck and there's a bunch of tutorials.

You should also be able to find content on windowsazure.com 

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/scenarios/big-data/ 
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/how-to-guides/hadoop/

I recommend going through at least one of these tutorials:  
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/tutorials/hadoop-marketplace/
and perhaps look at this deck in addition to the one included in the training kit. the http://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=http%3a%2f%2fvideo.ch9.ms%2fteched%2f2012%2fna%2fAZR325.pptx 

If you want to learn more about big data, these are great resources below.

Tutorials:  https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/how-to-guides/hadoop/
Blog:  http://blogs.msdn.com/hpctrekker/
Twitter:  @wenmingye
Books:
Hadoop The Definitive Guide *
Mining the Social Web
Collective Intelligence *
Mahout In Action
Data Source Handbook Pete Warden
Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar *
Million song database data cached here:  AbsoluteUri	http://wrfstorage2.blob.core.windows.net/dataset/train_triplets.txt.zip