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Published inMay 2018
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Sridhar Alla
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Sridhar Alla

Sridhar?Alla?is the co-founder and CTO of Blue Whale Consulting and is expert at helping companies (big and small) define their vision for systems and capabilities that will allow them to establish a strategic execution plan to deal with the ever-growing data collected to support analytics and product teams. He has very experienced at dealing with all aspects of data collection, security, governance, and processing as part of end-to-end big data analytics and machine learning initiatives (including predictive modeling, deep learning, and ML automation). Sridhar?is a published book author and an avid presenter at numerous conferences, including Strata, Hadoop World, and Spark Summit.? He also has several patents filed with the US PTO on large-scale computing and distributed systems.? He has over 18 years' experience writing code in Scala, Java, C, C++, Python, R, and Go, and has extensive hands-on knowledge of Spark, Flink, TensorFlow, Keras, Hadoop, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Riak, Redis, Zeppelin, Mesos, Docker, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Solr, H2O, machine learning, text analytics, distributed computing, and high-performance computing. Sridhar lives with his wife and daughter in New Jersey and in his spare time loves blogging and coaching organizations on next-generation advancements in technology and their alignment with business goals.
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Concepts and terminology


This section introduces the fundamental concepts of a Cloud and its artifacts.

Cloud

A Cloud refers to a distinct IT environment that is designed for remote provisioning of scalable and measured IT resources. The term originated as a metaphor for the internet to describe a network of networks providing remote access to a set of decentralized IT resources. Before Cloud computing was a formal IT segment, a Cloud symbol was commonly used to represent the Internet in a variety of specifications and mainstream documentation of web-based architectures.

IT resource

An IT resource is a physical or a virtual IT-related artifact that can be either software-based, such as a virtual server or a custom software program, or hardware-based, such as a physical server or a network device.

On-premise

As a distinct and remotely accessible environment, a Cloud represents an option for the deployment of IT resources. An IT resource hosted in a conventional IT enterprise within an organizational...

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Published in: May 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781788628846

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Sridhar Alla

Sridhar?Alla?is the co-founder and CTO of Blue Whale Consulting and is expert at helping companies (big and small) define their vision for systems and capabilities that will allow them to establish a strategic execution plan to deal with the ever-growing data collected to support analytics and product teams. He has very experienced at dealing with all aspects of data collection, security, governance, and processing as part of end-to-end big data analytics and machine learning initiatives (including predictive modeling, deep learning, and ML automation). Sridhar?is a published book author and an avid presenter at numerous conferences, including Strata, Hadoop World, and Spark Summit.? He also has several patents filed with the US PTO on large-scale computing and distributed systems.? He has over 18 years' experience writing code in Scala, Java, C, C++, Python, R, and Go, and has extensive hands-on knowledge of Spark, Flink, TensorFlow, Keras, Hadoop, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, Riak, Redis, Zeppelin, Mesos, Docker, Kafka, ElasticSearch, Solr, H2O, machine learning, text analytics, distributed computing, and high-performance computing. Sridhar lives with his wife and daughter in New Jersey and in his spare time loves blogging and coaching organizations on next-generation advancements in technology and their alignment with business goals.
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