New Street Communications, LLC

Leading IT professional Noreen Burlingame provides an efficient, user-friendly, 15,000-word "brief" on the current status of "Big Data" analytics and how you can economically deploy this technology to increase your firm's profitability. Burlingame surveys all of today's leading Big Data analytics providers, explains the fundamentals of Hadoop-based research, and shows cost-effective strategies for leveraging Big Data metrics to your best advantage.

Published February 2012 & Updated May 2012

Purchase as an Amazon Kindle eBook in USA: $3.95

Also available as a Kindle eBook in the United Kingdom, France, Italy Germany and Spain.

CONTENTS

Introduction

What is Big Data?

Hadoop

Amazon Elastic MapReduce as a Service - Including DynamoDB and How to Use it for Free

Cloudera (And Oracle's Big Data Appliance)

Datameer Big Data Analytics

EMC Hadoop-Enhanced Isilon NAS ... Plus Data Domain and Greenplum

Hadapt - Uniting Relational and Hadoop Environments

Hortonworks

IBM BigInsights, BigSheets, and Netezza Customer Intelligence

Informatica

Karmasphere Analyst and Studio

MapR Technologies and The Most Powerful, Elegant FREE Version of Hadoop Available Anywhere

Microsoft's Big Data Solution

The Role of the Data Scientist

RainStor Big Data Analytics on Hadoop - The Industry's First Enterprise-Class Database Running Natively on Hadoop

DataStax (Including Coverage of the Free "Community Edition" of DataStax's Cassandra Implementation, with OpsCenter)

Pervasive DataRush

Additional Books By

Noreen Burlingame

The Little Book of Data Science, 2012 Edition

Hybrid Cloud Essentials