Author: By Jon Zuanich

Feed: Cloudera Manager – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Jon Zuanich. Our video animation factory has been busy lately. The embedded player below contains our two latest ones stitched together: Get Started with Hadoop Using Cloudera Enterprise, Part 1  To be a proactive industry leader, you must be able to consume critical data as it is produced, analyze it quickly and act on your results. Before Hadoop there was no scalable, cost-effective way to do this with Big Data. Learn how Cloudera Enterprise helps you to efficiently store all of your data, avoiding archiving and data loss, and provides the opportunity ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Manager – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Jon Zuanich. In this demo video, Philip Zeyliger, a software engineer at Cloudera, discusses the Activity Monitoring and Operational Reports in Cloudera Manager. Activity Monitoring The Activity Monitoring feature in Cloudera Manager consolidates all Hadoop cluster activities into a single, real-time view. This capability lets you see who is running what activities on the Hadoop cluster, both at the current time and through historical activity views. Activities are either individual MapReduce jobs or those that are part of larger workflows (via Oozie, Hive or Pig). Activity Monitoring provides many statistics – both ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Manager – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Jon Zuanich. In this demo video, BC Wong, a software engineer at Cloudera, discusses the Hadoop Service Monitoring feature in Cloudera Manager. Service Monitoring helps you monitor and manage your Hadoop clusters effectively. Through the Service Monitoring feature, customers can monitor dozens of service health and performance metrics about the overall service (HDFS, MapReduce, HBase). They can also examine underlying role instances (Namenode, Datanodes, JobTracker, TaskTrackers, Region Servers etc.) in your Hadoop cluster and see what’s going wrong – or what is about to go wrong. Service Monitoring presents health and performance ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Manager – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Jon Zuanich. Service and Configuration Management (Part I & II) We’ve recently recorded a series of demo videos intended to highlight the extensive set of features and functions included with Cloudera Manager, the industry’s first end-to-end management application for Apache Hadoop. These demo videos showcase the newly enhanced Cloudera Manager interface and reveal how to use this powerful application to simplify the administration of Hadoop clusters, optimize performance and enhance the quality of service. In the first two videos of this series, Philip Langdale, a software engineer at Cloudera, walks through Cloudera ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Jon Zuanich. Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2013 is looming on the horizon and pacing to be the largest gathering of Big Data professionals on the globe. As co-hosts with O’Reilly, we have seen the conference thrive, grow, and are excited about the upcoming Oct. 28 – 30 event! Below you will find a listing of all the ways you can engage with Cloudera throughout the conference (all speakers are Cloudera employees unless otherwise indicated): Keynote Cloudera co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Mike Olson will explain how Apache Hadoop and Cloudera are transforming the ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: Jon Zuanich. In this demo, Henry Robinson, a software engineer at Cloudera, discusses the Log Management, Event Management and Alerting features in Cloudera Manager that help make sense out of all the discrete events that take place across the Hadoop cluster. He demonstrates how to search the logs valuable information, note important events that pertain to system health and create alerts to warn you when things go wrong. Log Management Every process in a Hadoop cluster regularly writes to a log file, which captures valuable data but also creates volumes of information that ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: Jon Zuanich. Last November in New York City, Hadoop World, the largest conference of Apache Hadoop practitioners, developers, business executives, industry luminaries and innovative companies took place. The enthusiasm for the possibilities in Big Data management and analytics with Hadoop was palpable across the conference. Cloudera CEO, Mike Olson, summarizes Hadoop World 2011 in these final remarks. Those who attended Hadoop World know how difficult navigating a route between two days of five parallel tracks of compelling content can be—particularly since Hadoop World 2011 consisted of sixty-five informative sessions about Hadoop. Understanding that ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: Jon Zuanich. Several meetups for Apache Hadoop and Hadoop-related projects are scheduled for the evenings surrounding Hadoop World 2011. Make the most of your week in New York City by attending one or more of these meetups focusing on the Apache projects Hadoop, HBase, Sqoop, Hive and Flume. Food and beverages will be provided at each meetup. Join us to relax, get informed and network with your fellow conference attendees. November 7: 6pm – 8pm ET Attend this Apache Hadoop and Apache Hbase meetup the night before Hadoop World kicks off. Learn from ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: Jon Zuanich. Check out the Hadoop World 2011 conference agenda! Find sessions of interest and begin planning your Hadoop World experience among the sixty breakout sessions spread across five simultaneous tracks at http://www.hadoopworld.com/agenda/. The Operations track at Hadoop World 2011 focuses on the practices IT organizations employ to adopt and run Apache Hadoop with special emphasis on the people, processes and technology. Presentations will include initial deployment case studies, production scenarios or expansion scenarios with a focus on people, processes and technology. Speakers will discuss advances in reducing the cost of Hadoop deployment ... Read More

Feed: Cloudera Engineering Blog » Hadoop. Author: Jon Zuanich. The Enterprise Architecture track at Hadoop World 2011 will provide insight into how Hadoop is powering today’s advanced data management ecosystems and how Hadoop fits into modern enterprise environments. Speakers will discuss architecture and models, demonstrating how Hadoop connects to surrounding platforms. Attendees of the Enterprise Architecture track will learn Hadoop deployment design patterns; enterprise models and system architecture; types of systems managing data that is transferred to Hadoop using Apache Sqoop and Apache Flume; and how to publish data via Apache Hive, Apache HBase and Apache Sqoop to systems that ... Read More