Galactic Exchange Free Hadoop/Spark Cluster Creations in 5 minutes

A new company Galactic Exchange Offers Free Hadoop/Spark Cluster Creations in 5 minutes for Big Data.  

It is an impressive free service offering, as normally this process is not simple, and this new offer is a breakthrough and better still, open source. 

This new service offer / process is called ClusterGX is currently in Beta, presented at Strata + Hadoop World. However, the service works by having its beta users to own and have their own data already available with own applications, so that it runs on top of the cluster.

This new tool, is open source and superb being free to use for now.  The company is pays and provides the whole cloud infrastructure, this is a breakthrough as it is allowing users with a great vision by utilizing Hadoop and its implied big data wonders and capabilities.

The new company Galactic Exchange will eventually release an enterprise version of the product complete with better security, support and all the kinds of features businesses expect.

Rob Mustarde stated "The product is actually geared toward small to medium businesses, the ones that can’t afford to hire dedicated teams to spin up and manage Hadoop clusters",

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EdX Tech Entrepreneurial Courses and Earn $1000 from Amazon Web Services

Aspiring Technology Entrepreneurs Can Now Join Entrepreneurship Courses and Earns Credits from Amazon.

An interesting opportunity for any Entrepreneur that may be thinking of starting their business, by having an idea with the most appropriate skills can really help the path to success. 

In this context, there is an offer via a partnership between Amazon Web Services and the online education portal EdX . The offer comprises of $1,000 in credit for completing one of two courses. The courses are in Entrepreneurship 101 or 102 at EdX. In order to take advantage of the offer Entrepreneurs are required to pass the courses, which in turn will entitle them automatically with $1,000 in credit to spend on processor time and/or storage in Amazon’s cloud.

Furthermore, Entrepreneurs also receive extra bonuses which might be more relevant for those with software code development experience for administrating infrastructure, and instructor led training with web classes on using Amazon Web Services, also free support at Amazon premium tier, that includes Amazon specialists that can help design and architect an app or service for Amazon instances.

The EdX course offer is detailed here on this link Amazon Offer from EdX and also links directly to the classes. The couses start on January 9, 2015, so there is sufficient time to look through the course syllabus before committing.
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Backup Your Facebook Tagged Photos and Videos to the Cloud

Facebook users can now backup their photos and videos that they were tagged by their friends via the new feature from the service IDrive.

The way the new feature works is that as the on-line backup service traditionally has it users connecting their local PC drives it is now also possible to connect to facebook and enabling it users to back up photos and videos to its servers on the cloud as a service.

Furthermore, it is not just simply backing photos and videos it now also offers the capability to back up photos and videos where a user has been tagged by its friends. This tagging feature means that in many cases if a user friend that owns the photo or video decides in the future to untag or delete the photo or video, or even further if the friend no longer is a friend, the original photo or video is still included in a user IDrive backup.

The data from Facebook once backed up, it can be accessed from any web browser or via the iOS app.

There are other backup similar services such as OwnBackup and Backupify.

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Why Cloud Computing increases IT Importance for Businesses

Information Technology is currently thriving in innovation and the future is even brighter particularly with new services being delivered via cloud computing. 

As a result IT for most businesses will become even more important of which as consequence the profession will not see any decline to the contrary of any perceptions in the market.
services, software-as-a-service applications and the like. That’s not really a big surprise. Where the controversies, or at least the questions, arise are in the company’s IT department.

In this post we present interesting subject topic points on why the IT is thriving and will continue so.

Hardware

It is not possible to move everything to the cloud. As result, IT departments at best will need to manage a hybrid environment where this includes devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops at a local corporate network level.

Data

Data management will never disappear whether its present in the cloud or not.

Application Performance Monitoring

Applications either running in the public cloud or by SaaS providers will always require monitoring and optimization to ensure adequate resources are in place including possible migrations with service levels are operating at their best from a user point of view.

Security

Any IT department, will always need to consider security whether utilizing the cloud infrastructure and its service delivery in relation to user access and authentications management.

Compliance

Regulation and compliance must always be adhered and followed on any business cloud strategy. This includes monitoring on business applications where data access is regulated.

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