This is just amazing – the kind of growth we have seen at BigDataCloud, and it wouldn’t have been possible without the help & support from all of you, BigDataCloud readers/members. Thanks to all of you for making it happen! For the meetup on this Thursday, September 8th, for the first time, we are having an industry track. We would be looking at various Big Data solutions as practiced in sprawling indus ...

We get asked a lot of questions about how to select Apache Hadoop worker node hardware. During my time at Yahoo!, we bought a lot of nodes with 6*2TB SATA drives, 24GB RAM and 8 cores in a dual socket configuration. This has proven to be a pretty good configuration. This year, I’ve seen systems with 12*2TB SATA drives, 48GB RAM and 8 cores in a dual socket configurations. We will see a move to 3TB drives th ...

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 ...

Looks like BigDataCloud's meetup tomorrow would be our biggest ever yet! We have more than 150+ signups from various sources. For the first time, the BigDataCloud meetup would be sponsored. Our sponsors are: 1. LexisNexis HPCC Systems from LexisNexis® Risk Solutions offers a proven, data-intensive supercomputing platform designed for the enterprise to solve big data problems. As an alternative to Hadoop, HP ...

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 ...

I spend lot of time tracking and monitoring Hadoop jobs running across multiple clusters in my current project. Typically I navigate around multiple Job tracker web admin consoles. Although the job tracker web console gives some basic system level statuses and metrics for Hadoop daemons, it leaves a lot to be desired. What’s missing is a monitoring platform at the application level. In my Hadoop job I may h ...

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 ...

The potential of “big data,” the massive explosion of sources of information from sensors, smart devices, and all other devices connected to the Internet, is probably under-appreciated in terms of its eventual business impact. However, to take maximum advantage of big data, IT is going to have to press the re-start button on its architecture for acquiring and understanding information. IT will need to const ...