Microsoft Azure Mobile Apps provides a straightforward way to expose backend data to multiple applications on multiple devices. In this presentation, I will show how to expose cloud data access and other processes via a REST interface and connect to that data from applications running on Windows, Windows Phone, iOS and Android. You will also learn how to secure these services; how to scale these services to meet volatile demand; how to push notifications to client apps; and how to manage Mobile Services from within Visual Studio.

Analyzing big data is a challenge, requiring lots of processing power and storage.

Cloud Computing is an ideal platform to tackle this problem. HD Insight on Microsoft Azure deploys Hadoop and other open source big data tools to the cloud, making it easier to take advantage of the high scalability of this platform.

In this session, you will learn what tools are available in HD Insight and how to use them to store, process, and analyze large amounts of data.