Parand Darugar
Parand "Tony" Darugar is an expert on software architecture and an accomplished speaker.
At DataServices World in San Jose, California, Parand spoke about the capabilities of Hadoop and distributed processing for grid and cloud environments. Hadoop is a software platform from the Apache Software Foundation. The DataServices World conference was co-located with SOAWorld, Virtualization Conference and the inaugural Cloud Computing Expo.
Data Processing in the Cloud
Slides
Windows Media Video: Pocket PC Broadband
Video (duration 49:44) Quicktime Mobile MP4
Data Processing in the Cloud Podcast (MP3 audio, duration 49:50)
Hadoop, an open source implementation of map/reduce, has garnered tremendous momentum in large scale data processing, data marts, and on occasion data warehousing. This presentation examines:
- The current state and industry adoption of Hadoop and cloud-based data processing
- The programming model, capabilities, common patterns, and best-practices for Hadoop deployment and usage.
- The ecology of value-add technologies and services in the grid computing and data processing world.
- Models for using grid-based data processing alongside traditional technologies and techniques.About Parand Darugar
As Director of Software Architecture at Yahoo!, Parand Darugar is responsible for adoption of scaling and grid technologies across the company's advertising business unit. In a prior role, he managed the advertising platform groups, Yahoo! wide centers of expertise providing Java, database, and other platform technologies across the company. Parand also served as a part of the core architecture team for Panama, a rebuild of Yahoo's major targeted advertising system.
Prior to Yahoo, Parand was co-founder and Chief Architect of Blue Titan, a venture backed Web Services infrastructure software company. Blue Titan was sold to SOA Software in 2005. Before Blue Titan he was co-founder and Chief Architect of VelociGen, Inc., a venture backed Web application acceleration and scaling software company.
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