Rise Of Big Data On Cloud
Growing up as an engineer and as a programmer I was reminded every step along the way that resources—computing as well as memory—are scarce. The programs were designed on these constraints. Then the cloud revolution happened and we told people not to worry about scarce computing. We saw rise of MapReduce, Hadoop, and countless other […]
Hacking Into The Indian Education System Reveals Score Tampering
Debarghya Das has a fascinating story on how he managed to bypass a silly web security layer to get access to the results of 150,000 ISCE (10th grade) and 65,000 ISC (12th grade) students in India. While lack of security and total ignorance to safeguard sensitive information is an interesting topic what is more fascinating […]
Big Data–Over Hyped Buzzword or Enterprise Focus?
Of all the myriad of terms that the tech industry throws around at the moment, none is as often subverted for marketing spin as “big data”. So much so that few people can actually agree on what big data is. For me, I’ll revert to Wikipediaand it’s definition which states; big data is a collection […]
4 Big Data Myths – Part I
It was cloud then and it’s Big Data now. Every time there’s a new disruptive category it creates a lot of confusion. These categories are not well-defined. They just catch on. What hurts the most is the myths. This is the first part of my two-part series to debunk Big Data myths. Myth # 4: […]
Early Signs Of Big Data Going Mainstream
Today, Cloudera announced a new $40m funding round to scale their sales and marketing efforts and a partnership with NetApp where NetApp will resell Cloudera’s Hadoop as part of their solution portfolio. These both announcements are critical to where the cloud and Big Data are headed. Big Data going mainstream: Hadoop and MapReduce are not […]
Hadoop Looms Big After The Hadoop Summit
Hadoop Summit 2011 was held this week at Santa Clara and it highlighted how Hadoop has matured in the past few years. Hadoop is an open source project under Apache Foundation which aims to solve the storage and processing of big data. Based on Google’s Map Reduce, Hadoop has emerged as a major platform in […]
Cloudera Desktop Announced And More
Cloudera, the company that offers commercial support for Hadoop which is an open source implementation of mapreduce, announced the availability of Cloudera Desktop, at the Hadoop World Conference going on in New York City. Cloudera Desktop is a graphical front-end for managing and developing for Hadoop. It is available for download right now. Cloudera desktop […]
