WANdisco Announces Free Online Hadoop Training Webinars

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 28, 2013) - Strata -- WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, today announced a series of free one-hour online Hadoop training webinars beginning with four bi-weekly sessions scheduled during March and April. Time will be allowed for audience Q&A at the end of each session.

The first, "A Hadoop Overview," will be held Wednesday, March 13 at 10:00 AM Pacific/1:00 PM Eastern. During this webinar, attendees will learn about Hadoop's history and architecture. This session will include an overview of major components such as HDFS, MapReduce, and HBase -- the NoSQL database management system used with Hadoop for real-time applications. A summary of Hadoop's ecosystem will also be provided. Other topics to be covered include a review of public and private cloud deployment options and common business use cases.

Other webinars include:
"Hadoop: A Deep Dive," March 27, 10:00 AM Pacific, 1:00 pm Eastern: This webinar will cover Hadoop misconceptions (not all clusters are comprised of thousands of machines), information about real world Hadoop deployments, a detailed review of Hadoop's ecosystem (Sqoop, Flume, Nutch, Oozie, etc.), an in-depth look at HDFS, and an explanation of MapReduce in relation to latency and dependence on other Hadoop activities. This webinar will introduce attendees to concepts they will need as a prerequisite for subsequent training webinars covering MapReduce, HBase and other major components at a deeper technical level.

"Hadoop: A MapReduce Tutorial," April 10, 10:00 AM Pacific, 1:00 pm Eastern: This webinar will cover MapReduce at a deep technical level. This session will cover the history of MapReduce, how a MapReduce job works, its logical flow, the rules and types of MapReduce jobs, de-bugging and testing MapReduce jobs, writing foolproof MapReduce jobs, various available workflow tools, and more.

"Hadoop: HBase In-Depth," April 24, 10:00 AM Pacific, 1:00 pm Eastern: This webinar will provide a deep technical review of HBase and cover flexibility, scalability, components (cells, rows, columns, qualifiers), schema samples, hardware requirements and more.

Free registration is available at www.wandisco.com/training/webinars/hadoop. WANdisco recommends early registration as space is limited.

About WANdisco
WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is a provider of enterprise-ready, non-stop software solutions that enable globally distributed organizations to meet today's data challenges of secure storage, scalability and availability. WANdisco's products are differentiated by the company's patented, active-active data replication technology, serving crucial high availability (HA) requirements, including Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Fortune Global 1000 companies including AT&T, Motorola, Intel and Halliburton rely on WANdisco for performance, reliability, security and availability. For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.

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