Disaster Recovery (DR) using AWS Database Migration Services

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Pritam Agrawal | Comments(2)

Disaster Recovery (DR) is the process an organization uses to recover access to their software, data, and/or hardware that are needed to resume the performance of normal, critical business functions after the event of either a natural disaster or a disaster caused by humans. In the event of a disaster, the continued operations of your company depend on the ability to replicate your IT systems and data.

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Data Analytics Ecosystem – AWS & Azure (Part 1)

Posted on April 11, 2017 by CloudThat | Comments(4)

In the past decade, technologies around data analytics and business intelligence have seen a tremendous growth in number and reach. The emergence of Cloud has undoubtedly been a catalyst to this growth. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure have both been working towards offering services for Collecting, Uploading, Storing and processing for Data.

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MongoDB Monitoring Service – Installation and Set Up

Posted on May 21, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(0)

MongoDB Monitoring Service or MMS is a free monitoring application developed by the MongoDB team to manage and troubleshoot MongoDB deployments. Once set up correctly, you get a bunch of metrics that can be very useful during troubleshooting production issues.

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5 Reasons why DynamoDB is better than MongoDB

Posted on April 29, 2014 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(9)

If you are considering MongoDB or any other NoSQL databases, its a must that you consider DynamoDB. In the MongoDB vs DynamoDB matchup, DynamoDB has a lot of brilliant features that help ease the pain of running NoSQL clusters. Below I give five reasons to choose DynamoDB over MongoDB.

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Sample Questions for MongoDB Certified DBA (C100DBA) exam – Part II

Posted on April 21, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(12)

Here are some more sample questions for C100DBA: MongoDB Certified DBA Associate Exam.

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Sample Questions for MongoDB Certified DBA (C100DBA) exam – Part I

Posted on April 5, 2014 by CloudThat | Comments(22)

Below are some of the sample questions Sample Questions for C100DBA: MongoDB Certified DBA Associate Exam. You can read more about the MongoDB Certified DBA Exam here.

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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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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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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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