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Resource level Permission for EC2

Posted on March 27, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Elastic Cloud Compute has proven to be a flagship service provided by Amazon Web Service where one could allocate and use powerful computing resources (EC2 Instances) with ease. Using EC2, one can perform complex operations like allocating virtual resources for development, testing, production with few clicks.

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CloudFront Custom SSL certificates

Posted on March 5, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

All CloudFront distributions can be accessed through the domain name xxx.cloudfront.net. If you are using HTTP, you simply map your domain to https://xxx.cloudfront.net using a Cname.

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Preparing for MongoDB Certified DBA Associate Exam

Posted on March 5, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(21)

MongoDB Inc. has recently released certification program. There was lack of certification in the MongoDB ecosystem and after having worked with MongoDB for few years now, the news about MongoDB certification got me excited. I recently appeared for the MongoDB Certified DBA Associate Exam and am going to share a few details about the exam and my experience.

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1000 jobs for BigData Analytics posted in 1 week !!

Posted on February 20, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(2)

I teach a BigData Analytics course in Bangalore and I routinely check up for jobs that exist in this domain on Naukri.com. (Naukri.com is the no.1 job site in the country). You must be hearing about BigData , Cloud technologies and Analytics being the ‘hottest’ jobs of the century.

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AWS adds two new Route53 Health Checking features

Posted on February 4, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

AWS recently added two additional features to Route 53 health checks, which are HTTPS support and string matching. Lets see what these features do and how would it help a DevOps Engineer.

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Facebook Open Sources Presto SQL Query Engine

Posted on November 12, 2013 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

In June 2013 at Analytics @ WebScale conference, Facebook announced Presto which they were using internally to process petabytes of data. It has now been made open-source as per a recent post by Facebook Engineering.

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In the war of Titans for control of the cloud, who wins….for now?

Posted on October 11, 2013 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

It’s a common knowledge that, like most governments, USA government too is moving its data to cloud. So, CIA too is cloud bound. Hitherto, only giants such as IBM, Oracle and HP stood any chance of winning government bids.

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Jobs – Big data and Analytics

Posted on August 20, 2013 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

A search on Naukri with key words Hadoop + analytics / Big data + analytics gave me some interesting insights into the type of jobs that are currently floating in the Indian market.

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Career opportunities in Cloud Computing and Big Data

Posted on August 14, 2013 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

The global analytics market is expected to reach $25 billion by 2015 and the global cloud market is expected to be ~$675 billion by 2020. Indian IT players need to capitalize on its already well established IT/BPM market presence by increasing their services portfolio beyond the typical IT offerings.

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Impacts of Cloud Computing’s Demand – Reflections on Employment and Attitude

Posted on August 2, 2013 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

Comptia’s 3rd “Annual Trend in Cloud Computing” Study has revealed many interesting and promising statistics for the Cloud Computing Sector, including a great impact for Cloud Computing training providers. According to the study 83% of companies today are using some form of Cloud solution.

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