This document provides an overview of big data and how Azure HDInsight can be used to work with big data. It discusses the evolution of data from gigabytes to exabytes and the big data utility gap where most data is stored but not analyzed. It then discusses how to store everything, analyze anything, and build the right thing using big data. Examples are provided of companies generating large amounts of data. An overview of the Hadoop ecosystem is given along with examples of using Hive and Pig on HDInsight to query and analyze large datasets. A case study of Klout is also summarized.