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Platform: The Cloud Foundry Conference   is an event for developers and cloud operators that are using the industry's leading Open Source Platform-as-a-Service:  Cloud Foundry . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cloud Foundry is the leading open platform-as-a-service, providing an open ecosystem of developer frameworks and application services. Cloud Foundry makes it faster and easier to build, test, deploy and scale applications. Cloud Foundry is an Apache 2.0 licensed project, stewarded by Pivotal, and available on Github:  https://github.com/cloudfoundry  .  To learn more about Cloud Foundry visit  http://www.cloudfoundry.com/ . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a quick link to all the sessions from #PlatformCF 2013 Pivotal Update -Platform: The Cloud Foundry Conference Welcome b...

The month of August marks a much anticipated return to school for both parents and students, but it appears that the subject of education is just as popular in the cybercrime underground this time of year. RSA has observed an increased supply of cybercrime courses, lessons, counseling and tutoring offered to fraudsters in rather official-looking models, mimicking the activity of legitimate schooling SENIOR FRAUDSTERS OFFER SCHOOLING FOR NEWCOMERS It has never been uncommon in the underground to see senior actors offer up advice to  newbies on how to commit fraud. More recently, seasoned criminals are even willing to  share more of their time and expertise to teach willing would-be criminals the ins and  outs of cybercrime – for a fee. RSA has been seeing an increase in ads by established criminals advertising courses they  commonly carry out via Skype videoconferencing. To add value, “teachers” are offering  interesting fraud courses, following th...

“ Data Scientist ” is the sexiest job of the 21st century. The Harvard Business Review made this claim last October and it seems that everyone (including your grandmother) has been repeating it ever since.  Here is a quick snapshot on - what is a data scientist, some industry references, how to get started and more............................................ Post by EMC Academic Alliance .

Here is the first video from the Women Leadership Team ( WLF ) at EMC India Center of Excellence.  This course introduces the topic of cloud computing from the security perspective. The student will learn about the basic security concepts and the difference between the Classic Data Center and the Cloud Infrastructure from security standpoint. The course also explains in detail the various security concerns and the threats in cloud environment and concludes with the available security mechanisms to address the concerns and safeguard the cloud infrastructure from these threats.

Some of the 2012 graduates have already been acquired. Here is the 2013 list, as shared by Linkedin Top 10 Most InDemand Startups Among Bay Area Engineers 2013 from LinkedIn

Here a good book for reference : Big Data Storage Guide for Dummies A handy guide for designing, implementing and managing your storage architecture to support innovative Big Data Projects. The book will help you in the following ways :           What you need to know to build a Big Data storage architecture           Techniques to ensure a successful Big Data project           Best practice tips around Big Data security and compliance           Practical examples of Big Data in the real world Big Data Storage for Dummies from EMC Academic Alliance

At the last EMC Academic Conference in India, Dr. Milind Bhandarkar delivered 2 talks.  Here is a short profile of the speaker and links to his sessions. Please feel free to share it – ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Milind Bhandarkar was the founding member of the team at Yahoo, that took Apache Hadoop from 20-node prototype to datacenter-scale production system, and has been contributing and working with Hadoop since version 0.1.0. He started the Yahoo! Grid solutions team focused on training, consulting, and supporting hundreds of new migrants to Hadoop. Parallel programming languages and paradigms has been his area of focus for over 20 years. He worked at the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Center for Simulation of Advanced Rockets, Siebel Systems, Pathscale Inc. (acquired by QLogic), Yahoo! and Linkedin. C...