The video recording is Vol 1 of the Hadoop Stack training delivered by Allied Consultants. Training was conducted by Khurram M Pirzada, Hadoop Lead at Allied Consultants. The training was moderated by Sharjeel Sohaib, lead content developer at Allied Consultants. Vol 1 of the training video gives an overview of: What is Big Data? Why, where […]
It was January 2014 and one of our BI resources came-up with an idea to (god knows where these insane ideas pop-up into the heads of otherwise sane people) do social media event analysis using Microsoft Power BI. We did not stop him. The event he tracked was Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2014. The two hashtags […]
News Key Points Policy engine aims to provide security for big data infrastructure Blue Talon policy engine, dynamic data masking, stealthy analytics and auditing Why Hadoop is the obvious choice for managing Big Data Early players, global Hadoop market HP Vertica users put limits on using Hadoop for analytics Predictive modeling, Data visualization “BIG DATA”: […]
We sat down with Khurram M. Pirzada, Big Data practice lead at Allied Consultants to ask him about the main challenges that developers come across an Apache Cassandra database (and NoSQL databases in general). Here are the major issues, along with their solutions that Pirzada highlighted. 1. Read-time Degradation “Relational databases cannot handle very large […]
The five key challenges of working in in Hadoop MapReduce are: Lack of data storage and support capabilities Lack of application deployment support Lack of analytical capabilities in database Issues in online processing Privacy and Security challenges Download Your Free Big Data Hadoop Software Requirements Document Here MapReduce defined IBM defines MapReduce as two separate and distinct tasks […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK0UN394ltM I dont think the architecture they are pushing is the best idea in all scenarios but its still a pretty exciting view of where this is all heading.
Preface The questionnaire is based on TDWI’s Big Data Maturity Model Guide 2013. We have tweaked it into a questionnaire to help big data project managers & CIOs to help identify their respective stage in the maturity model, and do some quantification of their current state of big data maturity (based on the scores assigned […]
The post has been updated since it was last published. Big Data pilot A fast growing data integration company, Informatica, observed that “the explosive growth of Big Data is no longer a news. Being within the reach of most organizations today, the challenge is to adopt the big data or hadoop technologies by starting with […]
In July 2014, Gartner published the proprietary Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. The cycle shows Internet of things at the cusp of massive growth within next 5-10 years. It implies that technology consultants have a fair chance to ride this wave, given they address the core challenges that typical consulting firms/consultants face when building a […]
Building practice in a new technology area can be a daunting task for IT consultants. We’ve asked our in-house experts regarding the best practices that IT consultants can use when they start building their Internet of Things practice. We’ve also cross-checked these with the industry experts in the IoT domain. Here are the 9 best practices. […]