Hadoop
9th Oct 2012
Conversations about Hadoop and where is my Data Whisperer
Hadoop is being subjected to some very interesting use cases. I have seen shops that get work done with just Flume for aggregating and processing data. So what is on the horizon for the Hadoop Ecosystem. The following trends are emerging.
3rd Apr 2012
Introduction to Big Data & Hadoop Ecosystem - Part 1
We live in the data age! Web has been growing rapidly in size as well as scale during the last 10 years and shows no signs of slowing down. Statistics show that every passing year more data gets generated than all the previous years combined. Moore's law not only holds true for hardware but for data being generated too. Without wasting time for coining a new phrase for such vast amounts of data, the computing industry decided to just call it, plain and simple, Big Data.
14th Feb 2012
AWS & Windows Azure - Side by Side Comparison
Many customers evaluating Public Cloud will invariably consider Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure. With both the stacks adding new services at a rapid pace, it becomes hard to understand how the features stack up. This is an attempt to put them side by side and do a quick comparison of the features. We will be updating this grid to reflect the latest additions to either stacks.
11th Jan 2012
Oracle and Cloudera Partner to Release the Big Data Appliance
Giving a big boost to Apache Hadoop, Oracle has released a Hadoop Appliance powered by Cloudera’s distribution. This is a follow up to an announcement that Oracle made at OpenWorld in October 2011. This release from Oracle validates the momentum that Apache Hadoop has gained in the recent past.