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Why is Big Data Analytics So Important?

Data, in today’s business and technology world, is indispensable. The Big Data technologies and initiatives are rising to analyze this data for gaining insights that can help in making strategic decisions. The concept evolved at the beginning of the 21st century, and every technology giant is now making use of Big Data tools and technologies. Big Data refers to vast and voluminous data sets that may be structured or unstructured. This massive amount of data is produced every day by businesses and users. Big Data analytics is the process of examining large data sets to underline insights and patterns. The […]

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Preparation Guide for AWS Certified Big Data Specialty Exam

Amazon Web Services / By Pavan Gumaste

AWS certifications are one of the most sought-after certifications in the IT industry today. With the number of companies, small and big moving to the cloud, the market for AWS cloud is growing continuously. AWS has introduced a number of certifications ranging from Associate level to Specialty level. As, both Big Data and AWS are highly regarded skills in the IT market. Taking up the AWS Certified Big Data Specialty exam will prove as a golden ticket for your career to launch to the higher levels. Try Now: AWS Certified Big Data Specialty Free Test If you have knowledge of

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Top 10 Open Source Big Data Tools in 2024 [Updated]

Big Data / By Aditi Malhotra

Today almost every organization extensively uses big data to achieve the competitive edge in the market. With this in mind, open source big data tools for big data processing and analysis are the most useful choice of organizations considering the cost and other benefits. Hadoop is the top open source project and the big data bandwagon roller in the industry. However, it is not the end! There are plenty of other vendors who follow the open source path of Hadoop. Now, when we talk about big data tools, multiple aspects come into the picture concerning it. For example how large

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The Role of Women in Tech Industry: International Women’s Day

News & Updates / By Pavan Gumaste

International Women’s Day is right here; yes, on March 8th. It is the global day to celebrate the social, cultural, economic, political, and technical achievements of women. Every day, we’ve been coming across the new achievement of women in the tech industry. The names of the Marie Curie, Anita Roddick, and Sheryl Sandberg don’t need any introduction. The role they have played in the advancement of science and technology is worth salute. Thanks to the determination and passion, these wonderful women have made and continue to inspire many others. (Click to Tweet!) International women’s day is the day to celebrate

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Is Cloudera or Hortonworks Better for Hadoop Certification?

Big Data / By Aditi Malhotra

Big data analytics has gained its significant momentum with Hadoop. It has become a staple for every big company dealing with big data computing. From its inception time, till 2017, within these ten years, Hadoop has evolved a lot. Hadoop version 3 has emerged with almost doubled storage capacity and many more features. No doubt, in the big data technology space, Hadoop has a bright future. Apparently, it’s a pertaining question that what is the best Big Data Hadoop Certification in the market, Is Cloudera or Hortonworks better for Hadoop certification? In this blog, we will highlight specific areas that

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Importance of Apache Spark in Big Data Industry

Big Data / By Aditi Malhotra

Hadoop has already proved its huge potential in the Big data industry by providing better insights on data to make the business grow. With its unbeatable Big data processing capability using batch processing it has redefined Big data domain. Since Apache Spark stepped into Big data industry, it has met the enterprises’ expectations in a better way regarding data processing, querying, and generating analytics reports in a faster way. Here’s why Apache Spark Faster. Apache Spark is widely considered as the future of Big Data Platform. In this blog, we will discuss the various aspects of why Apache Spark is gaining more importance

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Project Management Techniques to Avoid Project Failure

Project Management / By Pavan Gumaste

In the world of projects, there are always equal chances of success and failure. So, it becomes important how to avoid project failure and how to overcome it. Failure always tends to be more public than success. Daily we hear news of many projects that had huge loss or project is not completed within given deadline. This problem can be solved by using both leadership and proper management. With proper leadership, you will be inspired and will grow more; with proper management, you will have more accountability and consistency. Top Project Management Techniques to Avoid Project Failure This article describes

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How to Prepare for AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Certification?

Amazon Web Services / By Pavan Gumaste

In this article, we are going to explain how to prepare and pass the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification exam. Cloud Practitioner exam is the basic and beginner level certification exam from AWS. If you are a fresher and confused of which AWS certification to choose for your learning path, then this exam would be first one to start your certification journey. AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam is considered as the fundamental level exam, intended for AWS freshers or who are working in the management side. Latest updates: The AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam CLF-C01 will be available only on

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How Does Cloudera Take Hadoop to The Next Level?

Big Data / By Aditi Malhotra

Hadoop is the world’s first unified open source platform for big data and Cloudera is today an enterprise analytic big data management platform powered by Apache Hadoop™. Indeed Cloudera and Hadoop complement each other. Cloudera and Hadoop together offer enterprises one single place for data management and data analysis. You can evaluate the data and invest based on it. Cloudera offers enterprises a complete data platform (CDH) along with open source Hadoop ecosystem. For this reason, today Cloudera is the World’s most trusted and used enterprise Hadoop data hub. From enterprise application to education Cloudera takes Hadoop to the next

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Top 10 Reasons for Project Failure

Project Management / By Pavan Gumaste

A project is assumed under project failure if it has not delivered its basic required expectations. Projects are generally started to meet a business ambition but it must also meet the stakeholder presumptions. If the project can meet both the business ambitions and all stakeholder presumptions, then it can be considered as a success. However, the reality is not same as we expect it could be. As expectations of the customers and stakeholders keep on changing constantly, it becomes difficult for the project team to deal with issues and to achieve project goals. But the question is why project fails?

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