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Andrew Minteer
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Andrew Minteer

Andrew Minteer is currently the senior director, data science and research at a leading global retail company. Prior to that, he served as the director, IoT Analytics and Machine Learning at a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. He has an MBA from Indiana University with a background in statistics, software development, database design, cloud architecture, and has led analytics teams for over 10 years. He first taught himself to program on an Atari 800 computer at the age of 11 and fondly remembers the frustration of waiting through 20 minutes of beeps and static to load a 100-line program. He now thoroughly enjoys launching a 1 TB GPU-backed cloud instance in a few minutes and getting right to work. Andrew is a private pilot who looks forward to spending some time in the air sometime soon. He enjoys kayaking, camping, traveling the world, and playing around with his six-year-old son and three-year-old daughter.
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Microsoft Azure overview


Microsoft offers a cloud infrastructure service called Azure that competes directly with AWS. It is generally ranked as number two in the industry in size and capabilities, although it has been closing that gap recently.

The range of services is similar to AWS but with a Microsoft flavor. Microsoft markets the services as easier to integrate with corporate on-premise networks. Integration leans more toward Microsoft technology, such as the Windows operating system, the .NET programming language, and the SQL Server database.

We will review some of the services of interest for IoT analytics.

Azure Data Lake Store

Azure Data Lake Store is compatible with Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), which we will be discussing in Chapter 4, Creating an AWS Cloud Analytics Environment. It also has a REST interface for applications that is WebHDFS-compatible.

Data stored in Data Lake Store can be analyzed using analytic frameworks within the Hadoop ecosystem, such as MapReduce and...

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Andrew Minteer

Andrew Minteer is currently the senior director, data science and research at a leading global retail company. Prior to that, he served as the director, IoT Analytics and Machine Learning at a Fortune 500 manufacturing company. He has an MBA from Indiana University with a background in statistics, software development, database design, cloud architecture, and has led analytics teams for over 10 years. He first taught himself to program on an Atari 800 computer at the age of 11 and fondly remembers the frustration of waiting through 20 minutes of beeps and static to load a 100-line program. He now thoroughly enjoys launching a 1 TB GPU-backed cloud instance in a few minutes and getting right to work. Andrew is a private pilot who looks forward to spending some time in the air sometime soon. He enjoys kayaking, camping, traveling the world, and playing around with his six-year-old son and three-year-old daughter.
Read more about Andrew Minteer