Convergence with the Linux realm is happening again at Microsoft with the introduction of Hue on HDInsight (a graphical interface for Hadoop/HDP) and HDInsight on Linux. Hue has been around for quite awhile in the Apache realm and in most Hadoop distros, glad do see HDInsight is finally getting a user-friendly GUI.
Another announcement introduces U-SQL (see Michael Rys (@MikeDoesBigData) Introducing U-SQL). A SQL-like, Hive/Pig/Grep/Awk combo language to ELT+QE (Extract/Load/Transform + Query/Extract) on top of the HDInsight Big Data Lake.
The biggest announcement is the Azure Data Lake itself...
