AWS Announces New Service – Amazon Workspaces

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(0)

AWS today released a new service called Amazon Workspaces to provide a “fully managed desktop computing service in the cloud”. The main use cases for this service is to provide a high-quality workstation environment with relative ease.

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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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Preparing for AWS Certified Developer Beta Exam

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(4)

Amazon has now released Beta for AWS Certified Developer at Associate level and AWS Certified SysOps at Associate Level. Until now only the AWS Certified Solutions Architect was available at the Associate Level. But Amazon is aggressively working on their certification program and adding more certifications at a good pace.

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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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Sample Questions for Amazon Web Services Certified Solution Architect Certification (AWS Architect Certification) – Part II

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(25)

Here are some more Sample Questions* for AWS Certification for AWS Certified Solution Architect. Answers with explanations are at the bottom. If you have not yet attempted
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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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Five Reasons Why Cloud Architects Should Attain AWS Certification NOW!

Posted on August 5, 2013 by Bhavesh Goswami | Comments(5)

1. It is the only REAL Certification in the market

There are a lot of public cloud providers in the market especially at the infrastructure level. AWS is the undoubted market leader, and by a huge margin. The other popular ones are Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Rackspace, HP Cloud, VMware Cloud, etc. But none of these cloud providers have an architect level certification for their products.

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The Lighter side of the Cloud – Cloud Washing vs. Cloud Clarity

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

The cloud computing market has now moved on from the early adopter stage and is becoming more mature. This means more demand. But with this has risen the problem of Cloud Washing where vendors label even non Cloud services as cloud. Only those with a clear and deep understanding of how cloud works can manage to avoid the mistake.

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