Organizations as diverse as Northrop Grumman (NOC), Harvard University, Zynga, and the New York Stock Exchange (NYX) have filled job websites with requests for talented puppeteers and master chefs. A quick dig into the job listings reveals that these positions have nothing to do with office entertainment or gourmet meals. Instead, the companies want people who have mastered Puppet or Chef, competing softwar ...

BigDataCloud’s theme of “Hadoop Powered Predictions & Recommendations Engines” attracted over 100 people to the meetup last night, sponsored by LexisNexis & ThirdEyeCloud. The attendees thronged the LexisNexis’s booth about its newly debuted HPCC Systems & got an understanding of how its Hadoop alternative can actually solve “Big Data” challenges in enterprises. The attendees also had a chance to “meet & gr ...

Hadoop technologies have started to mature and many of us are now tasked at implementing Hadoop MapReduce based solutions at our respective organizations. From our own practical experiences, we can tell that the going is not going to be as smooth as you might have expected. That’s what peaked our interest in this webinar by Platform Computing: Top Issues IT faces with Hadoop MapReduce This webinar claims th ...

Third Eye is launching "Byte Sized Hadoop" classes – for as low as $125/class! These Hadoop classes will be offered byte-sized, 3 hours each, after work hours & conducted by industry veterans with a practical "from-the-trenches" approach. BigDataCloud meetup attendees have heard & met the instructors individually: Paul Baclace - presented "Optimizing bursty Hadoop analysis demands for big data using A ...

Jobs around Hadoop technologies have exploded while the number of professionals experienced on Hadoop have not! The current job markets around Hadoop technologies is a very different one, one that is opposite to everything else other job markets all over the US are experiencing today. Jobs around Hadoop technologies have exploded, in all parts of the US, in companies big and small – while the number of prof ...

Users share billions of pieces of content daily on Facebook, and it’s the data infrastructure team's job to analyze that data so we can present it to those users and their friends in the quickest and most relevant manner. This requires a lot of infrastructure and supporting data, so much so that we need to move that data periodically to ever larger data centers. Just last month, the data infrastructure team ...

Last week was definitely a busy one in the MapReduce world! At the annual Hadoop Summit, Yahoo! officially announced the spinoff of HortonWorks (possibly the worst kept secret in the Hadoop community), and Cloudera and MapR both announced new distributions. With even more fragmentation coming to the Hadoop community, what better time to wrap up this series on the state of MapReduce. In my previous two posts ...

Big data — as in managing and analyzing — large volumes of information, has come a long way in the past couple of years. Among the greatest innovations might be the advent of real-time analytics, which allow the processing of information in real time to enable instantaneous decision-making. Even Hadoop, the set of parallel-processing tools that has become the face of big data, but which has been historicall ...

This year at Structure 2011, we will be looking at the next wave of cloud technology and services. Anyone with a vested interest in cloud computing wouldn't want to miss this chance to hear about its future from the people who are making it happen. The speaker lineup will feature top executives from leading companies building the next-generation of the cloud. BigDataCloud community members can register now ...

This year at Structure 2011, we will be looking at the next wave of cloud technology and services. Anyone with a vested interest in cloud computing wouldn’t want to miss this chance to hear about its future from the people who are making it happen. The speaker lineup will feature top executives from leading companies building the next-generation of the cloud. BigDataCloud community members can register now ...