A National workshop on Demystifying Cloud
and Big Data Computing
A two day National level workshop was conducted at Jeppiaar Engineering
College in association with “COMPUTER SOCIETY OF INDIA” on August 23
and August 24 of 2013.The speaker of the workshop was Dr. Ravikumar
Ramadoss, Senior Technology Architect in INFOSYS. The speaker had conducted
140+ workshops on Cloud Computing and Big Data across India.
The aim of the workshop was to put together researchers and practitioners to
discuss the future trends in IT arena. The topics discussed were based on Cloud
Computing and Big Data. On 23rd August a small inauguration was kept for the
workshop. A brief description about Cloud Computing was given by the speaker.
The topics covered were: Myth about Cloud and Big data, Unique research
methodology, Perspective on Cloud & Cloud Ecosystems.
Cloud Computing is viewed as a Next Revolution / Big Switch in IT and the
industry is rapidly shifting its focus from developing applications for PCs to Data
Centers and Clouds that enable millions of users make use of software
simultaneously.
On 24th August Information about Big Data was given. The speaker provided real
time present problems associated with Big Data processing. The topics discussed
were: Challenges towards research trends, Big data ecosystems, Case study demo.
Big Data is a collection of data sets which is so large and complex that it becomes
difficult to store and process it using on-hand database management tools.
On 24th August after the discussion of topics open question time was given for
Participants to clear their doubts followed by valedictory function. The participants
were certificates and hope they gained much knowledge about CLOUD
COMPUTING AND BIG DATA.