The Big Data Infra for Enterprises – Making Hadoop Secure for Enterprises session was probably my 4th or 5th attendance to BigDataCloud meetup hosted by DJ and Jeeta Das. Time is luxury and if you login to meetup.com, several meetups with names that generate significant interest crop up. I am sure all agree with me. However, attending BigDataCloud meetup is time well invested. Few days ago I had spoken to J ...

In just over 7 years Hadoop has progressed from a research project on web scale search to a widespread foundational infrastructure and analytics platform for many Web 2.0 companies and, increasingly, enterprises. So where does Hadoop go next? Hadoop was created to address the problem of massive storage and processing scalability at very low costs, by: • Moving computation to the data instead of moving the d ...

Guess who benefits when two industry giants compete with each other offering exactly the same set of services? It is RightScale! While the Cloud ecosystem is still recovering from the euphoria of witnessing Microsoft and Google launch IaaS, RightScale is busy porting their ServerTemplates to both the Public Clouds. They are in an enviable position where every new IaaS provider wants to be a part of their pl ...

Social media analytics and tracking can be very time-consuming and expensive. You’ll find quite a few smartsocial media monitoring tools, but what if you can’t afford them? That’s why many social media marketers and power users are in constant search of free, efficient alternatives. Here, we’ll share a few ready-made spreadsheets you can copy (navigate File + Make a copy) and use for social media analytics. ...

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 ...

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 ...

The cloud computing world has been anxious to hear former NASA CTO Chris Kemp’s plans since he left his post in the spring to pursue a startup venture, and on Wednesday morning, he introduced his new company, Nebula. It’s selling an OpenStack-based appliance for managing scale-out cloud deployments, and is backed by premier talent and investors. Nebula isn’t disclosing how much it has raised, but Co-Founder ...

Today Microsoft Research announced the availability of a free technology preview of Project Daytona MapReduce Runtime for Windows Azure. Using a set of tools for working with big data based on Google's MapReduce paper, it provides an alternative to Apache Hadoop. Daytona was created by the eXtreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research. It's designed to help scientists take advantage of Azure for working wit ...

At la 2006, today, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo collectively announced that they will be partnering to create schema.org, a resource for site owners and developers to learn about structured data and gain insight into how to improve their sites’ search results. The site adds more than 100 new forms of website markup for content ranging from movies to places in an effort to standardize, and thus improve, how ...

iTunes in the cloud. We all know it’s coming, it’s just a question of when, and with what capabilities? A story from Boy Genius Report today appears to answer at least one of those questions, and vaguely answers the other. If BGR’s “reliable” Apple source is to be believed, Apple’s iTunes cloud strategy will consist of three parts: 1) Streaming content from Apple’s servers to your devices 2) Streaming conte ...