Data Science Operations and Engineering: Roles, Tools, Tips, & Best Practices

Watch this video to find out how Nasdaq improves agility and reduces costs for their Big Data infrastructure, while ensuring performance and security. To learn more about the BlueData software platform, visit www.bluedata.com

The BlueData EPIC software platform makes deployment of Big Data infrastructure and applications easier, faster, and more cost-effective – whether on-premises or on the public cloud.

With BlueData EPIC on AWS, you can quickly and easily deploy your preferred Big Data applications, distributions and tools; leverage enterprise-class security and cost controls for multi-tenant deployments on the Amazon cloud; and tap into both Amazon S3 and on-premises storage for your Big Data analytics.

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The BlueData software platform is a game-changer for Big Data analytics. Watch this video to see how BlueData makes it easier, faster, and more cost-effective to deploy Big Data infrastructure and applications on-premises.

With BlueData, you can spin up Hadoop or Spark clusters in minutes rather than months – at a fraction of the cost and with far fewer resources. Leveraging Docker containers and optimized to run on Intel architecture, BlueData’s software delivers agility and high performance for your Big Data analytics.

Learn more at www.bluedata.com

Join this webinar to learn how to deploy a scalable and elastic architecture for Big Data analytics.

Hadoop and related technologies for Big Data analytics can deliver tremendous business value, and at a lower cost than traditional data management approaches. But early adopters have encountered challenges and learned lessons over the past few years.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss:

-The five worst practices in early Hadoop deployments and how to avoid them
-Best practices for the right architecture to meet the needs of the business
-The case study and Big Data journey for a large global financial services organization
-How to ensure highly scalable and elastic Big Data infrastructure

Discover the most common mistakes for Hadoop deployments – and learn how to deliver an elastic Big Data solution.

Join this webinar to learn how to get started with large-scale distributed data science.

Do your data science teams want to use R with Spark to analyze large data sets? How do you provide the flexibility, scalability, and elasticity that they need – from prototyping to production?

In this webinar, we’ll discuss how to:

*Evaluate compute choices for running R with Spark (e.g., SparkR or RStudio Server with sparklyr)
*Provide access to data from different sources (e.g., Amazon S3, HDFS) to run with R and Spark
*Create on-demand environments using Docker containers, either on-premises or in the cloud
*Improve agility and flexibility while ensuring enterprise-grade security, monitoring, and scalability

Find out how to deliver a scalable and elastic platform for data science with Spark and R.

Join this webinar to learn how to deploy Hadoop, Spark, and other Big Data tools in a hybrid cloud architecture.

More and more organizations are using AWS and other public clouds for Big Data analytics and data science. But most enterprises have a mix of Big Data workloads and use cases: some on-premises, some in the public cloud, or a combination of the two. How do you support the needs of your data science and analyst teams to meet this new reality?

In this webinar, we’ll discuss how to:

-Spin up instant Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, and Cassandra clusters – with Jupyter, RStudio, or Zeppelin notebooks
-Create environments once and run them on any infrastructure, using Docker containers
-Manage workloads in the cloud or on-prem from a common self-service user interface and admin console
-Ensure enterprise-grade authentication, security, access controls, and multi-tenancy

Don’t miss this webinar on how to provide on-demand, elastic, and secure environments for Big Data analytics – in a hybrid architecture.

Join this webinar to learn how to bring DevOps agility to data science and big data analytics.

It’s no longer just about building a prototype, or provisioning Hadoop and Spark clusters. How do you operationalize the data science lifecycle? How can you address the needs of all your data science users, with various skillsets? How do you ensure security, sharing, flexibility, and repeatability?

In this webinar, we’ll discuss best practices to:

-Increase productivity and accelerate time-to-value for data science operations and engineering teams.

-Quickly deploy environments with data science tools (e.g. Spark, Kafka, Zeppelin, JupyterHub, H2O, RStudio).

-Create environments once and run them everywhere – on-premises or on AWS – with Docker containers.

-Provide enterprise-grade security, monitoring, and auditing for your data pipelines.

Don’t miss this webinar. Join us to learn about data science operations – including key roles, tools, and tips for success.

So you want to use Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR on AWS. Or maybe Spark with Jupyter or Zeppelin; plus Kafka and Cassandra. Now you can, all from one easy-to-use interface. Best of all, it doesn't require DevOps or AWS expertise.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss:

-Onboarding multiple teams onto AWS, with security and cost controls in a multi-tenant architecture
-Accelerating the creation of data pipelines, with instant clusters for Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, and Cassandra
-Providing data scientists with choice and flexibility for their preferred Big Data frameworks, distributions, and tools
-Running analytics using data in Amazon S3 and on-premises storage, with pre-built integration and connectors

Don’t miss this webinar on how to quickly and easily deploy Spark, Hadoop, and more on AWS – without DevOps or AWS-specific skills.

Implementing data science and machine learning at scale is challenging for developers, data engineers, and data analysts. Methods used on a single laptop need to be redesigned for a distributed pipeline with multiple users and multi-node clusters. So how do you make it work?

In this webinar, we’ll dive into a real-world use case and discuss:

- Requirements and tools such as R, Python, Spark, H2O, and others
- Infrastructure complexity, gaps in skill sets, and other challenges
- Tips for getting data engineers, SQL developers, and data scientists to collaborate
- How to provide a user-friendly, scalable, and elastic platform for distributed data science

Join this webinar and learn how to get started with a large-scale distributed platform for data science and machine learning.

Join this webinar with Cisco and BlueData to learn how to deliver greater agility and flexibility for Big Data analytics with Big-Data-as-a-Service.

Your data scientists and developers want the latest Big Data tools for iterative prototyping and dev/test environments. Your IT teams need to keep up with the constant evolution of new tools including Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, and other frameworks.

The DevOps approach is helping to bridge this gap between other developers and IT teams. Can DevOps agility and automation be applied to Big Data?

In this webinar, we'll discuss:

- A way to extend the benefits of DevOps to Big Data, using Docker containers to provide Big-Data-as-a-Service.
-How data scientists and developers can spin up instant self-service clusters for Hadoop, Spark, and other Big Data tools.
-The need for next-generation, composable infrastructure to deliver Big-Data-as-a-Service in an on-premises deployment.
-How BlueData and Cisco UCS can help accelerate time-to-deployment and bring DevOps agility to your Big Data initiative.

Join this webinar to learn how to run Hadoop and Spark on Docker in an enterprise deployment.

Today, most applications can be “Dockerized”. However, there are unique challenges when deploying a Big Data framework such as Spark or Hadoop on Docker containers in a large-scale production environment.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss:

-Practical tips on how to deploy multi-node Hadoop and Spark workloads using Docker containers
-Techniques for multi-host networking, secure isolation, QoS controls, and high availability with containers
-Best practices to achieve optimal I/O performance for Hadoop and Spark using Docker
-How a container-based deployment can deliver greater agility, cost savings, and ROI for your Big Data initiative

Don’t miss this webinar on how to "Dockerize" your Big Data applications in a reliable, secure, and high-performance environment.

Watch this webinar to learn about Big-Data-as-a-Service from experts at Dell and BlueData.

Enterprises have been using both Big Data and Cloud Computing technologies for years. Until recently, the two have not been combined.

Now the agility and efficiency benefits of self-service elastic infrastructure are being extended to big data initiatives – whether on-premises or in the public cloud.

In this webinar, you’ll learn about:

- The benefits of Big-Data-as-a-Service – including agility, cost-savings, and separation of compute from storage
- Innovations that enable an on-demand cloud operating model for on-premises Hadoop and Spark deployments
- The use of container technology to deliver equivalent performance to bare-metal for Big Data workloads
- Tradeoffs, requirements, and key considerations for Big-Data-as-a-Service in the enterprise

Join this webinar to learn how the University of Georgia (UGA) uses Apache Spark and other tools for Big Data analytics and data science research.

UGA needs to give its students and faculty the ability to do hands-on data analysis, with instant access to their own Spark clusters and other Big Data applications.

So how do they provide on-demand Big Data infrastructure and applications for a wide range of data science use cases? How do they give their users the flexibility to try different tools without excessive overhead or cost?

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:

- Spin up new Spark and Hadoop clusters within minutes, and quickly upgrade to new versions

- Make it easy for users to build and tinker with their own end-to-end data science environments

- Deploy cost-effective, on-premises elastic infrastructure for Big Data analytics and research

Join this webinar to learn best practices for building real-time data pipelines with Spark Streaming, Kafka, and Cassandra.

Analysis of real-time data streams can bring tremendous value – delivering competitive business advantage, averting potential crises, or creating new revenue streams.

So how do you take advantage of this "fast data"? How do you build a real-time data pipeline to enable instant insights, immediate action, and continuous feedback?

In this webinar, you'll learn:
*Research from analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) on real-time data and streaming analytics
*Use cases and real-world examples of real-time data processing, including benefits and challenges
*Key technologies that ensure high throughput, low-latency, and fault-tolerant streaming analytics
*How to build a scalable and flexible data science pipeline using Spark Streaming, Kafka, and Cassandra

Don’t miss this webinar. Find out how to get started with your real-time data pipeline today!

This webinar with Intel and BlueData describes an easier way to deploy Big Data.

Big data adoption has moved from experimental projects to mission-critical, enterprise-wide deployments providing new insights, competitive advantage, and business innovation.

However, the complexity of technologies like Hadoop and Spark is holding back big data adoption. It's time-consuming, expensive, and resource-intensive to scale these implementations.

Enterprises need an "easy button" to accelerate the on-premises deployment of big data analytics.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:
- Quickly set up a dev/test lab environment to get started.
- Improve agility with a Big-Data-as-a-Service experience on-premises.
- Eliminate data duplication and decouple compute from storage for big data infrastructure.
-Leverage new innovations – including container technology – to simplify and scale deployment.

Watch this webinar and discover a fundamentally new approach to Big Data.

Join this webinar with EMC and BlueData for a discussion on cost-effective, high-performance Hadoop infrastructure for Big Data analytics.

When Hadoop was first introduced to the market 10 years ago, it was designed to work on dedicated servers with direct-attached storage for optimal performance. This was sufficient at the time, but enterprises today need a modern architecture that is easier to manage as your deployment grows.

Find out how you can use shared infrastructure for Hadoop – and separate compute and storage – without impacting performance for data-driven applications. This approach can accelerate your deployment and reduce costs, while laying the foundation for a broader data lake strategy.

Get insights and best practices for your Big Data deployment:
- Learn why data locality for Hadoop is no longer relevant – we’ll debunk this myth.
- Discover how to gain the benefits of shared storage for Hadoop, such as data protection and security.
- Find out how you can eliminate data duplication and run Hadoop analytics without moving your data.
- Get started quickly and easily, leveraging virtualization and container technology to simplify your Hadoop infrastructure.

And more. Don't miss this informative webinar with Big Data experts.

Apache Spark has arrived in the enterprise. Adoption of the lightning-fast cluster computing phenomenon for big data processing is accelerating rapidly.

But how can enterprises move from initial experimentation with Spark to a multi-tenant deployment on-premises? How should IT prepare for the wave of Spark adoption? Are there lessons learned from Hadoop that can be applied to implementing Spark?

Join this webinar with Forrester Research and BlueData for an in-depth look into Apache Spark. You’ll learn:

- Forrester’s latest findings and insights, including why Spark adoption is accelerating in the enterprise.
- Example use cases and benefits for deploying Spark in an on-premises, multi-tenant environment.
- How to make Spark accessible across the enterprise.
- How to get started quickly and easily.

BlueData software makes it easier, faster, and more cost-effective to deploy Big Data infrastructure on-premises. You can deploy big data clusters in minutes, not months.

Learn how you can deploy Hadoop or Spark infrastructure on-premises: easier, faster, and more cost-effectively. With the BlueData EPIC™ software platform, you can:

*Spin up Hadoop or Spark clusters within minutes, whether for test or production environments

*Deliver the agility and efficiency benefits of virtualization, with the performance of bare-metal

*Work with any Big Data analytical application, any Hadoop or Spark distribution, and any infrastructure

*Provide the enterprise-grade governance and security required, in a multi-tenant environment