Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 is an enterprise-wide hyper-scale repository for big data analytic workloads. Azure Data Lake enables you to capture data of any size, type, and ingestion speed in one single place for operational and exploratory analytics. Data Lake Storage Gen1 can be accessed from Hadoop (available with HDInsight cluster) using the WebHDFS-compatible REST APIs. It's designed to enable analytics on the stored data and is tuned for performance for data analytics scenarios. Data Lake Storage Gen1 includes all enterprise-grade capabilities: security, manageability, scalability, reliability, and availability.

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