Telltale Signs You Need Big Data

October 9, 2014 Rich Morrow Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

If you’re like most companies, you’re probably sick of hearing about “big data.” However, like most companies, you’re probably also still years away from taking advantage of it. Regardless of company size or vertical, proper implementation of big data, storage and analysis technologies can both save and make your organization a ton of cash. At the very least, these technologies can help you better understand how to best serve your customers by crawling through their behavior logs and discovering what they want as well as the best way to get it to them.

Searching for Unicorns and Wizards in Big Data

September 12, 2014 Rich Morrow Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Although many may argue the point, technology implementation for big data (and technology implementation in general) is usually the easy part. There’s a script to install it, there are online resources for answering questions, and if all else fails, we can outsource the setup and maintenance. However, structuring and managing teams of individuals who install, maintain and use those systems is no easy task.

Lessons Learned Deploying Hadoop

July 16, 2014 Rich Morrow Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

So you’ve done your research and quickly realized that Hadoop is going to be at the very core of your company’s Big Data Platform, given that data storage and processing will never get more cost effective than open-source software running on commodity hardware. The next level down the rabbit hole has you in a quandary, though. Beyond Hadoop, you start running into technologies like Hive, Impala, Pig, Storm, YARN and other elements from Hadoop’s periodic table of technologies.

What is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud?

May 14, 2014 Rich Morrow Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

One of the first and most important services you’ll use in Amazon Web Services is Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, virtual servers that come in various hardware footprints.

Big Data Toolset Smackdown

May 6, 2014 Rich Morrow Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

If you’ve spent more than five minutes researching big data, you’ve already come across technologies like Hadoop, BigQuery, EMR and RedShift, and you may even know what OLAP and NoSQL means and where they fit in. What you may not have been exposed to, however, is the next and very important level down the rabbit hole—technologies like Tableu, Microstrategy, QlikView, Hive and Impala. Let’s take a look at each of these technologies and see where they fit and how they compare to each other.