Routing & Switching

Using Hadoop Like a Boss

January 23, 2013 Rich Morrow Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Once you’re doing real development, you’ll want to get into the habit of using smaller, test datasets on your local machine and running your code iteratively in Local Jobrunner Mode (which lets you locally test and debug your Map and Reduce code), then Pseudo-Distributed Mode (which more closely mimics the production environment), then finally Fully-Distributed Mode (your real production cluster). By doing this iterative development, you’ll be able to get bugs worked out on smaller subsets of the data so that when you run on your full dataset with real production resources, you’ll have all the kinks worked out, and your job won’t crash three-quarters of the way in.

Looking Forward to AFCEA’s West13 in San Diego

January 23, 2013 John Mark Ivey Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

In the last two years, I’ve been to my share of IT tradeshows and conferences. Las Vegas. San Francisco. Dallas. DC. San Diego. Of all the cities I’ve traveled to for work, I enjoyed San Diego the most, so the fact that my next conference is AFCEA’s West 13 in the San Diego Convention Center is a great way to start off my 2013 business travels.

Why Monitor Network Performance?

January 22, 2013 Paul Simoneau Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Network monitoring software is essential with the goal being preventive or proactive solutions and in-depth analysis of what’s happening in organizational networks. Let’s look into some of the biggest reasons your organization should be monitoring network performance

What Is the Correct ESXi 5.1 Upgrade Process?

January 22, 2013 Bill Ferguson Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

Going by the book, the upgrade process is precisely defined and should be followed in a specified order and manner whenever possible. In real life, other options and challenges always exist that might come into play in your organization. If you want to upgrade to vSphere 5.1 with the least possible headaches, you should perform the following steps in their precise order:

CCNP Exam Prep Question of the Week

January 21, 2013 Dawn Hopper Cisco, Cloudera, Featured, Professional Development, Project Management, Routing & Switching, Technology, Training in Business

What is the tolerable end-to-end delay for VoIP?