This document contains a summary of a presentation on Hadoop given by Henk van der Valk and Jan Pieter Posthuma on 7/11/2013. The presentation covered an introduction to Hadoop and its core components like HDFS, MapReduce, Hive and how to access data from and to Hadoop using tools like PolyBase. It also provided examples of using Hive and Excel to query and extract data from Hadoop and loading data between Hadoop and SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse.