HUG-Hyderabad meeting was conducted in Infosys Hyderabad campus on 22nd September, 2012 and it was way beyond what was expected and I made some good networking with the like minded. Here is the agenda for the meeting. Along with the other presentations the data visualization presentation from Gramener was really good and got me excited. It's not only important to process the data, but it's even more important to visualize the data. Here is the presentation by Naveen from Gramener.
Hadoop has become like a buzz word and there is an effort to fit every problem with a Hadoop Solution. As you have noticed from the blog, I am pretty much interested in alternate frameworks and models to Hadoop and MapReduce like Hama/Giraph and BSP. So, I talked about some of the strengths and weakness of Hadoop along with a few alternatives. The audience were really interested in it. Here is the presentation I have used for my session.
There had been IT bubbles and booms in the past and there will be there more in the future also. While some of them were geared towards decreasing the costs and some towards making more profits, Big Data technology has started making a direct impact on our every day lives from Health Care to Travel to Education. There is no aspect in life which isn't or can't be benefited from Big Data. Here is another presentation by Sudheer Marisetti from Abacus Concepts.
Enterprises are adopting open source clouds to avoid any vendor lock-ins and Service Providers are using open source clouds due to the reason that it can be customized to differentiate them from other Service Providers . Here is a nice article from GigaOM on `What role does open source play in cloud computing innovation?`. Ram Chinta from CloudStack shared the below `Community Connect : Apache CloudStack` presentation from the HUG session. Also, CloudStack meetups are being planned in Hyderabad. For those interested please join the CloudStack Hyderabad Group here.
The next HUG meeting would be mostly scheduled in a month or so in Hyderabad and I am anxiously waiting for it. I encourage those who are interested in Big Data to register here for the upcoming event in meetup and attend it. Also, if anyone is interested in hosting the event in their company in Hyderabad please let me know at praveensripati@gmail.com
Have a nice day !!!