Archive for September 2014

“Picture Ben Franklin attempting to harness energy from a lightning-filled sky. The key tied to his kite was the middleman between electricity and the ground. This book details how using the cloud can be your key to finding or enhancing success.”Understanding cloud computing is hard enough. Cloud service brokerage, however, is the way forward for…

According to the Gartner IT Glossary, “Cloud services brokerage (CSB) is an IT role and business model in which a company or other entity adds value to one or more (public or private) cloud services on behalf of one or more consumers of that service via three primary roles including aggregation, integration and customization brokerage”.…

How do I install Hadoop, and on what platforms? What are the differences between versions of Hadoop? How do I Extract, Transform and Load in Hadoop? The answers to these questions are available at… In the video below, Dr. Bill Appelbe (High Performance Computing consultant, Georgia Tech and University of California faculty member and Learning…