Friday, December 30, 2011

Fantastic Summary of year 2011 for Big Data

The author of this article here provided very interesting wrap up of the year 2011 for the big data. There is no doubt on the rage of war on the distribution of hadoop growing day by day and expected to grow further into coming years. Big data seems like a revolutionary direction for new companies and VC's funding new startups. Data is growing at a rapid pace and never to slow down. The exponential rate at which is grows in coming years needs to be comprehended by hadoop and sub-projects associated. Data Scientist role is playing vital role for decision making for several businesses and will be more and more apparent in coming years.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Hadoop + Lucene :: Apache Lucene Euro Con 2011

Hadoop has been evolving through continuous research and tremendous contributions by few core companies - Yahoo, Hortonworks, MapR and Cloudera. Without this research, we would be digging a grave with un-manageable and useless data in-front of us. These days storage is much much cheaper and if hadoop can act on un-structured ton of data to answer questions, we have a lot to look forward to from there on.

Eric Baldeschwieler, Keynote speaker at Apache Lucene Eurocon 2011 in Barcelona, predicts that 50% of the world’s data will be stored on Hadoop within 5 years: 

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Apache Hadoop Summit 2011 ::

If you have missed the Apache Hadoop Summit 2011, you can watch the playlist series here.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011