A new Hadoop book, and I am a reviewer

Celebrating the relentless pace of Hadoop innovation

Three weeks ago, presenting to my colleagues at Deloitte a short exposé on Shark and Spark from Berkeley, I mentioned that new things come up in Hadoopland all the time. For example, if within the next month something really new and unexpected happens again, I promised them to buy an "I told you so" cake.

It did happen, with the Cloudera's introduction of secure Hadoop with Sentry. So tomorrow we will all eat cake.

Hadoop coloring book for kids

While daddy or mommy is hard at work on Hadoop, or is perhaps training at the Hadoop Illuminated training course, what are the kids to do?

Now there is an option. When the tired developer comes home in the evening, he can tell his kid what he was doing at work - in pictures.

The Hadoop Coloring Book for Kids was created by our talented illustrator and can be downloaded right here.

Your suggestions are welcome.

Houston Hadoop Meetup celebrates its 200th member

Narayanan just joined Houston Hadoop Meetup Group!

You now have 200 members in your Meetup Group!      

Too funny to miss

 “Let’s face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

First Houston Hadoop hackathon and more...

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft lately:

1. Hadoop Hackathon in Houston this Wednesday, see here http://www.meetup.com/Houston-Hadoop-Meetup-Group/events/102954462/ for details - simulating a smart power utility;
2. Starting a number of initiative in using SHMcloud for back-end eDiscovery processing, stay tuned;
3. Putting the Hadoop Namenode on a Kove memory device - project started with our partner Kove, hosted in Chicago.

Thank you and best regards from the SHMsoft team.

04.29.2013

SHMsoft News - First full Hadoop training for developers delivered

Let's take a quick look at what happened at SHMsoft lately:

1. Congratulation to Sujee Maniyam, for successfully delivering “Hadoop training for developers,” a four-day hands on course, at an important company in San Francisco.
2. SHMcloud eDiscovery:  we are now offering processing service, with the export into a review tool of your choice, such as Concordance.
3. Dell has given us a cluster of excellent servers for a 90-day evaluation - for our development of eDiscovery. The machines are hosted in Champaign, IL. Let the fun begin! - Thank you, Dell!

Thank you and best regards from the SHMsoft team.

04.15.2013