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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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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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It is strange to be writing this post right after the biggest outage in the cloud computing history. Outage or not, I feel the march to the cloud is all but unstoppable. Not only is this outage not going to deter more people to come to the cloud, it will, in my humble opinion, accelerate cloud computing momentum. Even though the outage was confined to a single region of the Amazon EC2 cloud, it was, and still is, at the top of the news and the world at large can finally understand just how much workload has already moved to [...]
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Big Data is a big deal. It is a subject of conversation for the largest multinational corporations and the smallest start-ups alike. IBM is making big bets on Big Data. There is a rapidly expanding portfolio of products and services with one of the more recent additions InfoSphere BigInsights being of a particular interest for the readers of this blog. In short, InfoSphere BigInsights brings Apache Hadoop Map-Reduce large scale analytics to the enterprise.
Anjul Bhambhri, VP responsible for Big Data at IBM was recently interviewed by TechCrunch. In this interview Anjul talks about several projects such as detecting an [...]
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