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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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For databases size does matter: introducing DB2 pureScale.

On Monday October 5, Sal Vella, IBM VP of DB2 development, introduced DB2 pureScale to the attendees of the IDUG Europe conference in Rome. Matt Huras, IBM Distinguished Engineer and the architect of DB2 pureScale, provided an in-depth technical description of DB2 pureScale in his conference session. Today, IBM followed up with a press release highlighting this new and exciting technology. Since press releases in general don’t provide much in a way of detail I decided to post some information on this blog based on what Sal Vella and Matt Huras talked about at IDUG Europe. This is not going [...]

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I’ll make you an offer you can’t refuse …

I am not very good at impressions so I am going to spare you my curious reader the pain and agony of me doing this famous line from one of my favorite movies. I will cut right to the chase. Next week about 6000 people are going to gather in Las Vegas at the IBM IOD conference. Those of you that have an opportunity to go will find a lot of excellent session to choose from but none of them can compare to BOF-2502A DB2 – Free as in Beer on Wednesday October 29 6-7pm. You get to meet a [...]

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