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Sep 28, 2015 19:25 GMT  ·  By

After revealing Azure Cloud Switch, a Linux kernel-based operating system for developing software products for network devices, Microsoft just announced that they decided to choose Ubuntu for their first Linux-based Azure offering.

Canonical's John Zannos dropped the news earlier today to inform us all that the Redmond company revealed the fact that starting today, September 28, their Azure HDInsight, an Apache Hadoop-based hosted service, would be powered by the Ubuntu Linux operating system and the Hortonworks Data Platform.

This is not the first time we hear about Microsoft choosing Ubuntu for their Azure HDInsight offering, as Ranga Rengarajan, Corporate Vice President, Data Platform at Microsoft, and Joseph Sirosh, Corporate Vice President, Machine Learning, announced the preview of Azure HDInsight on Ubuntu clusters at the Strata + Hadoop World Conference event earlier this year.

"The general availability of Azure HDInsight on Ubuntu Linux, which includes a service level agreement guarantee of 99.9% uptime and full technical support for the entire stack with the choice of running Hadoop workloads on Hortonworks Data Platform in Azure HDInsight using Ubuntu or Windows," says Ranga Rengarajan. "There’s also a growing  ecosystem of ISV’s delivering tools to create big data solutions on the Azure data platform with HDInsight."

Canonical is delighted to collaborate with Microsoft

In the same announcement, Canonical reveals the fact that they are extremely delighted to collaborate with Microsoft and that the Redmond company chose their Ubuntu Linux operating system for the Azure HDInsight Hadoop-based big data service offering, which you can try for free right now at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/hdinsight/.

Both companies are committed to meet the needs of their customers, especially in a world where the industry moves at warp-speed to adopt cloud architectures and analytics for performance and scale. You can find more information about Ubuntu Big Data solutions at http://ubuntu.com/bigdata and about Microsoft’s open source initiatives at http://www.microsoft.com/opensource.