About the Reviewers

Simon Elliston Ball is a solutions engineer at Hortonworks, where he helps a wide range of companies get the best out of Hadoop. Before that, he was the head of big data at Red Gate, creating tools to make HDInsight and Hadoop easier to work with. He has also spoken extensively on big data and NoSQL at conferences around the world.

Anindita Basak works as a big data cloud consultant and a big data Hadoop trainer and is highly enthusiastic about Microsoft Azure and HDInsight along with Hadoop open source ecosystem. She works as a specialist for Fortune 500 brands including cloud and big data based companies in the US. She has been playing with Hadoop on Azure since the incubation phase (http://www.hadooponazure.com). Previously, ...

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