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New on Cloud Academy: Machine Learning on Google Cloud and AWS, Big Data Analytics, Terraform, and more
A 2017 IDC White Paper "recommend[s] that organizations that want to get the most out of cloud should train a wide range of stakeholders on cloud f...
Top Cloud Skills in Demand for 2018: Big Data, AI, Machine Learning
Cloud is a pathway to innovation. Where yesterday’s cloud deployments were about moving an on-premises infrastructure in your data center to a clou...
New on Cloud Academy, September ’17. Big Data, Security, and Containers
Explore the newest Learning Paths, Courses, and Hands-on Labs on Cloud Academy in September.Learning Paths and CoursesCertified Big Data Specia...
New on Cloud Academy: Networking, Serverless, Big data, and more
This week on Cloud Academy, we’ve added new learning paths and hands-on labs in networking, serverless, big data, storage, and other cloud services...
Why Azure? Microsoft’s Brandon Middleton talks big data, PaaS, and what’s next for the cloud – Part 2
We recently hosted a webinar with Microsoft’s Brandon Middleton to talk about the benefits of the Azure platform. Today, we’ll be sharing part two ...
Building a serverless architecture for data collection with AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda is one of the best solutions for managing a data collection pipeline and for implementing a serverless architecture. In this post, we'll...
46 Big Data Terms Defined
Organizations must deal with the collection and storage of continuously-growing data, and then harvest it to capture value. "Big Data," as its call...
Harnessing the Power of Big Data Analysis on AWS
Like a jigsaw puzzle, there are many components in the AWS big data ecosystem. Read this article and see how the components fit together to form a ...
HDInsight – Azure’s Hadoop Big Data Service
How can Azure HDInsight solve your big data challenges?Big data refers to large volumes of fast-moving data in any format that haven't yet been h...
Big Data: Amazon EMR, Apache Spark and Apache Zeppelin – Part 2 of 2
In the first article about Amazon EMR, in our two-part series, we learned to install Apache Spark and Apache Zeppelin on Amazon EMR. We also learne...
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How DNS Works – the Domain Name System (Part One)
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How to Use AWS CLI
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What are the Benefits of Migrating to the Cloud?
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Amazon DynamoDB: 10 Things You Should Know
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