Hadoop on Windows Azure のCTPが始まっていますが現在招待制となっているようです。
興味があるのでリンクをまとめておきます。特に、Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogsには、Hadoopに関する投稿が多々あって大変参考になりそうです。
上から投稿日付順にならんでいるので、斜め読みしていくだけでもなんとなく利用方法がつかめる（ような気がする）でしょう。
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure CTP Availability - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 1- Creating a new Windows Azure Cluster for Hadoop Job - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 2 - Creating a Pi Estimator Hadoop Job - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 3 - Creating a Word Count Hadoop Job with a few twists - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 4- Remote Login to Hadoop node for MapReduce Job and HDFS administration - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 5 - Running 10GB Sort Hadoop Job with Teragen, TeraSort and TeraValidate Options - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 6 - Running 10GB Sort Hadoop Job with TeraSort Option and understanding MapReduce Job administration - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 7 – Writing your very own WordCount Hadoop Job in Java and deploying to Windows Azure Cluster - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 8 – Hadoop Map/Reduce Administration from command line in Cluster - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 9 – Using Interactive JavaScript for Data Visualization - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure Part 10 - Running a JavaScript Map/Reduce Job from Interactive JavaScript Console - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: How Hadoop cluster was setup on Windows Azure - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Connecting to Windows Azure Storage from Hadoop Cluster - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Using Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv://) for input data and storing results in Hadoop Map/Reduce Job on Windows Azure - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Few tips and tricks to manage your Hadoop cluster in Windows Azure - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure: Few tips and tricks to manage your Hadoop cluster in Windows Azure - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure : Running Hive Scripts from Interactive Hive Console - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Running Apache Pig (Pig Latin) at Apache Hadoop on Windows Azure - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
- Setting Windows Azure Blob Storage (asv) as data source directly from Portal at Hadoop on Azure - Avkash Chauhan's Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
