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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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Is IBM Taking Its Hadoop Case To The Streets?

“Time for IBM to Take Its Hadoop Case To The Streets” is the title of Jeff Kelly’s post on his ServicesAngle blog. Before I say anything, I want to do a usual disclaimer that opinions I express here are mine and mine alone. I don’t speak for IBM. I can however, talk about how I see things as both a member of the IBM Hadoop (BigInsights) team and a community participant. And I have to agree with Jeff … it is time that IBM took its Hadoop big data message out of the C-level executive offices where it has indeed [...]

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Gaming Hadoop Programming Challenge for a free trip to Las Vegas

Hadoop Programming Challenge: 4 days left

Ever since we announced Hadoop Programming Challenge we have had a flood of new students (7194) registering at the BigDataUniversity and a lot (1222) of people enrolling in the Hadoop Fundamentals I course. But don’t take my word for it, check the numbers out for yourself.

Gaming Hadoop

We have been surprised not just by the numbers but also by the persistence and ingenuity of the people looking to become one of the three to go to the IOD Conference in Las Vegas. A number of people have gone as far as to register [...]

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Learn Hadoop for Free and Go to Las Vegas All Expenses Paid

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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Top 5 reasons to join Toronto Hadoop Users Group

Toronto Hadoop User Group: Why Join?

Our team is getting deeply involved in the Big Data in general and Hadoop in particular. Being community-minded people, we looked around for established Hadoop communities in Toronto area to see if we could attend meetups. Our search did not yield any appreciable results so we decided to take action and to form a user group. This is how Toronto HUG was born and as of today we have 21 members or “Toronto HUGers”. 21 members for a city like Toronto is not the right number; not by a long shot. Toronto is the 5th largest [...]

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