title: How to efficiently move big data from a data center to Azure Blob Storage for later processing via HDInsight?
body: <p>I need to setup scheduled tasks which purpose is to copy/move large amounts of data from an on-premises data center to Windows Azure Blob Storage.</p>
  
  <p>The options I've explored are WebHDFS and Flume (the latter does not seem to be supported by HDInsight currently).</p>
  
  <p>What is the most efficient way to transfer unstructured files from a data center to Windows Azure Blob Storage?</p>