IBM is giving away free copies of the e-book: Understanding Big Data: Analytics for Enterprise Class Hadoop and Streaming Data
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Big data is going to change the way you do things in the future, how you gain insight, and make decisions (the change isn’t going to be a replacement, rather a synergy and extension). This book to help you get quickly up to speed on this technology and to show you the unique things IBM is doing to turn the freely available open source big data technology into a big data platform.
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.