Author(s) Name:  Jeffrey Needham

About the Book:

   The book provides an historically-informed overview through a wide range of topics, from the evolution of commodity supercomputing and the simplicity of big data technology, to the ways conventional clouds differ from Hadoop analytics clouds. This relentlessly innovative form of computing will soon become standard practice for organizations of any size attempting to derive insight from the tsunami of data engulfing them.

Table of Contents

  1. The Wall of Water
  2. Big Data: The Ultimate Computing Platform
  3. Organizations: The Other Platform
  4. The Reservoir of Data
  5. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: When Clouds Meet Big Data
  6. Haystacks and Headgames

ISBN:  9781449369019

Publisher:  O’Reilly Media, Inc.

Year of Publication:  2013

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