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Update: Replay of the webinar is at http://channelbigdata.com/video/clouds-for-small-and-big-data
The coolest part of my job is the opportunity to work with hottest technologies. I’ve been lucky over the years to be able to pick an emerging technology that I thought was going to make an impact on IT and immerse myself in it. Right now I find myself torn between two areas that I am convinced are the game changers. When I can’t decide what to pick I do both.
Cloud computing is redefining the way IT resources are provisioned. It is a fundamental change in the way [...]
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This year, Big Data is really big at the IOD Conference in Las Vegas. It is a subject of the keynotes, press releases and there are lots of breakout sessions on the topic. For a few sessions that were over capacity a repeat was scheduled. Here is one I plan to go to today and if you are at all interested in Big Data and IBM InfoSphere BigInsights (IBM’s enterprise ready implementation of Apache Hadoop) I highly recommend the session:
Session: IIM-3614B IBM InfoSphere BigInsights Product Deep Dive – Hadoop and Whole Lot More Time: Wed, 26/Oct, 02:00 PM – [...]
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Every year around the end of October I see geese heading south for the winter. And as if there was a similar instinct, those of us who are in to data and information processing head down to Las Vegas for the annual Information On Demand Conference. The conference has grown dramatically over the last few years and by all accounts it is going to be a great event this year.
Big Data will be in focus this year. There will be press releases, product announcements, demos and exhibits. Most important there will be an impressive array of technical sessions and [...]
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BigDataUniversity provides free @your pace @your place education in Hadoop, MapReduce and other Big Data technologies. In addition to free courses, students also get free study materials and products to do hands on exercises. At this time we are running Hadoop Programming Chalenge that will send 3 lucky participants on an all expenses paid trip to the IOD Conference October 23-27 in Las Vegas. [...]
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There is probably no hotter are in IT right now than Cloud Computing. The allure of lower costs and higher agility is simply too hard to ignore. However, one can nto have a conversation about Cloud Computing without encountering concerns about security and loss of control by the IT management. It is these concerns that are driving a great deal of interest in private clouds. Unlike public clouds like Amazon Web Services and IBM SmartCloud Enterprise which are sharing resources between all of the customers, private clouds allow IT organizations to create shared resource pools comfortably located behind corporate firewalls [...]
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