Career For U & Me
Boost Your Employability with Hadoop Skills The rise of Big Data technology is driving the need for Hadoop experts in India.
I
n the information-driven world, as colossal volumes of data stream at a breakneck speed, data management remains a major challenge. Providentially, the emergence of a new breed of technologies is redefining the way we handle the explosion of data—one of them is Hadoop. These technologies require dexterous IT professionals who have an appetite to learn and take on challenging tasks in managing Big Data. So, if you are planning to take a plunge into the Big Data realm, acquiring Hadoop skills can enhance your chances of getting hired immediately.
Why is Hadoop important in the business landscape?
So what is Hadoop all about? As Hortonworks, a global business software company dealing with the development and distribution of Hadoop, puts it, “Apache Hadoop is an open source project governed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) that allows you to gain insight from massive amounts of structured and unstructured data, quickly and without significant investment.” Over the years, organisations have realised that to enhance business productivity, they need to analyse and gain insight into Big Data. However, since 80 per cent of this data is
‘unstructured’, it must be formatted (or structured) so that one can mine the data effectively and then analyse it. Hadoop, as industry experts say, is the ‘nucleus’ platform for structuring Big Data, and plays a key role in making it effective for analytics. Explaining the importance of Hadoop in the business world, Pradip Kulkarni, distinguished engineer, Symantec India, says, “Hadoop is both an ecosystem that runs analytics applications, as well as a platform upon which individuals can develop such applications. These applications highlight business insights, help develop intelligence and cull out useful information that helps enterprises make informed decisions. This helps to improve the overall business and IT processes. Hadoop, being open source, is an attractive option as a foundation to build products, technologies and solutions that cater to markets in which the need is to process Big Data and find valuable insights from it.” Talking about the Indian business angle, Vineet Tyagi, associate VP at Impetus, shares, “Hadoop is an open source software framework for storage and large scale processing of data-sets on clusters of commodity hardware. Hadoop is democratising the access to large scale data processing at reasonable price points for enterprises. Indian businesses now have access to the IT frameworks that can help their decision www.OpenSourceForU.com | OPEN SOURCE For You | march 2014 | 97
