Training in Business

If you are considering a new LMS, you are seeking technology which will facilitate your creation of effective online learning initiatives, not constrain it!

The key to effective selection is identification of your organization’s functional requirements. But if you start this process by downloading a model Request for Proposal (RFP) from the internet, too often what you get is a collection of other people’s priorities, which frequently focus on administrative trivia rather than on enabling excellent learning design.

The good news is that there are simple ways to avoid these problems. To discover how to select learning technology which will enable your best learning designs, download this white paper.

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Old school MapReduce (MR) has been in widespread production use for several years now, and it certainly has both raving fans as well as detractors. Two of the most common and valid complaints the critics have is that MR can be both difficult to use (it requires some programming expertise) and that MR jobs take too long to complete. Although solutions like Pig and Hive have long helped make MR more accessible to non-developers, only recently has the community been able to achieve faster run times. With Impala, Cloudera addressed both of these concerns in one product: a simple-to-use engine that sits on top of your existing Hadoop cluster that can now return query results up to 70x faster.

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