Cloud Computing 2013: The Amazon Gorilla Invades The Enterprise – Wikibon

Summary At its AWS re:Invent conference in November 2012, Amazon presented a compelling story about how it intends to permanently alter the enterprise computing landscape generally and infrastructure services specifically. Executives from Amazon were clear that they had no intention of mimicking the business models of traditional enterprise service providers. Rather they intend to disrupt the current order ...

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Big Data Classes for April 2013

Third Eye is pleased to announce 5 new Big Data classes for April 2013. These classes cover the whole gamut of the educational needs for professionals to get into the Big Data marketplace. We have classes for complete beginners or those who just want to know about it to complete end-to-end solutions build using various Big Data technologies. April 27th 2013 classes: Hive – Administration & HiveQL Analyt ...

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Infosys BigDataEdge – Big Data Insights & Analytics | Big Data Platform

Infosys launches BigDataEdge: New Platform Develops Enterprise Insights up to Eight Times Faster, Fosters Near Real-Time Decisions and Actions New York, February 20, 2013: Infosys today announced the launch of BigDataEdge to radically simplify the complex task of analyzing Big Data to discover relevant information. By empowering business users to rapidly develop insights from vast amounts of structured and ...

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Intel Jumps into Big Data Pool with Hadoop Distribution | Data Informed

Intel, a company famous for its computer processing hardware, has jumped into the Hadoop software business, asserting that it wants to spur growth of big data analytics deployments in large data centers Data Informed reported. Intel announced plans on Feb. 26 to make the third version of its distribution of Hadoop and its accompanying Intel Manager for Apache Hadoop software available globally in the second ...

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EMC launches Hadoop distribution, takes aim at Cloudera | ZDNet

EMC on Monday rolled out its own distribution of Hadoop in a move that integrates the open source big data software directly with its Greenplum intellectual property. The aim: Take on Cloudera. The distribution, called Pivotal HD, is notable because it puts EMC in competition with Cloudera, which has a bevy of partners and is often seen as the Red Hat of big data. Many data warehousing players have built Ha ...

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WANdisco’s Non-Stop Hadoop Product Premier Party!

 Who: You're invited to WANdisco's Non-Stop Hadoop Product Premier Party. Fill out the form on the right to secure your spot today.  What: Join us for complimentary beer and wine tasting with heavy appetizers and a chance to win an iPad mini. When: Wednesday, February 27 at 6:30pm - 9:00pm Where: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Santa Clara Lafayette Room, 2nd Floor [button color="blue" link="http://go.wandisco.com/non ...

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The secret to tackling mobile, cloud and big data? Treat them as one. — Tech News and Analysis

SUMMARY: It’s no secret that mobile, big data and cloud computing are transforming IT. Sanjay Poonen, president of SAP’s mobile division, says companies need a single unified strategy to tackle them, not three separate ones. There is widespread agreement—across the globe and in every industry—that mobile, big data, and cloud computing are the three cornerstone issues of tomorrow’s business environment. In f ...

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Introduction to Hadoop 2, with a simple tool for generating Hadoop 2 config files

Introduction to Hadoop 2 Core Hadoop 2 consists of the distributed filesystem HDFS and the compute framework YARN. HDFS is a distributed filesystem that can be used to store anywhere from a few gigabytes to many petabytes of data. It is distributed in the sense that it utilizes a number of slave servers, ranging from 3 to a few thousand, to store and serve files from. YARN is the compute framework for Hadoo ...

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Thanks for attending the meetup last night…(Jan 24th 2013)

Dear Members, Well, I must say that I was pretty happy last night seeing the enthusiasm among the community members about the topic of the night, “Security in a Hadoop environment”.  We had a great interactive session and all of us learned about the challenges, issues and industry practices. We promise to put together another session on the same topic with more varied participants. One of our community memb ...

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