Earlier today, the Microsoft Corporation deepened its commitment to the Apache Hadoop ecosystem and its partnership with Hortonworks that has brought the best of Apache Hadoop and the open source big data analytics to the Cloud.
Since the start of the partnership nearly six years ago, hundreds of the largest enterprises have chosen to use Azure HDInsight and Hortonworks to run Hadoop, Spark and other Open Source analytics workloads on Azure. Also, during this time, Microsoft has become one of the leading committers to Apache projects, sharing its experience running one of largest data lakes on the planet, with the open source community.
Read about it in the Azure blog.