New Delhi, December 01, 2009 - Impetus Technologies (www.impetus.com), the pioneers in outsourced product development and engineering services, hosted a technology un-conference, 'First Hadoop India User Group Meet Up' on November 28, 2009 at its Noida campus. The event shed light on Hadoop technology and channelized efforts to develop an active Hadoop community that can network and share information. The event brought very interesting sessions on Hadoop and provided a platform for freewheeling discussion between everybody interested in Hadoop.
'Hadoop India User Group Meet Up' was an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from all participants. The event brought together leaders from the Hadoop developer and user communities. The speakers covered topics in the areas of extensions being developed for Hadoop, shared their experiences with Apache Hadoop/Hbase/Hive/PIG/Nutch/etc. and deliberated on future directions for the platform. The sessions were 'Enterprise perspective of Hadoop' by Rajeev Gupta, IBM Research Lab, IBM, 'Apache Zookeeper' by Aby Abraham, Yahoo!, Bangalore and 'Advanced Hadoop Tuning and Optimizations' by Sanjay Sharma, Impetus.
On the occasion, Pankaj Mittal, CTO Impetus Technologies said, "Impetus has always focused on cutting-edge technology. It is our endeavor to innovate and incorporate the latest and the best in technology in our work. There has been a lot of buzz about Hadoop lately, and we have been among the early adopters. We are happy to host the first Hadoop India User-Group Meet-up as it brought together participants who share the same passion for Hadoop and its potential."
Always keeping its focus on fostering new and upcoming technology discussions, Impetus regularly hosts various such technology events, including the biggest Open Source Community Un-conference BarCamp, MoMo Camp, Agile Session, OSS Camp etc. Impetus sponsored Hadoop World Conference 2009 held in New York City on October 2nd, 2009 and showcased its High Performance Computing (HPC) services, based on a combination of expertise on Hadoop technologies, Parallel Multicore Computing and Hardware GPU.
Impetus has made significant investments in creating practices around next generation technologies and solutions, among them HPC. The company services diverse business needs using HPC based software (Hadoop, Korus, Grids, Erlang) and hardware centric GPU (using CUDA) solutions. Impetus offers R&D, Proof-of-Concept creation and Consultancy for Hadoop Optimization and Cloud Deployments. The company adopts various HPC best practices in order to deliver high value and optimal solutions to meet various client application requirements. To know more, click at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3XWySfURQo
http://www.slideshare.net/ImpetusInfo/impetus-hadoop-hpc
http://www.slideboom.com/presentations/116540/PPT-on-Advanced-Hadoop-Tuning-n-Optimisation
http://www.scribd.com/doc/23047992/Digital-Market-Research-Intelligence-Hadoop
About Impetus: Headquartered in San Jose, Impetus Technologies provides outsourced software product design, R&D and related services to leading global software product companies. Impetus has been involved with hundreds of product launches over its decade-long association with its clients ranging from enterprise class companies to innovative technology start-ups.
Impetus works on cutting-edge technologies to develop a variety of next-generation products for a range of vertical domains. From enterprise applications that optimize supply chains and credit portfolios, to solutions for the emerging rich media and digital content verticals; and from products for wireless networks and mobile handsets to software for network forensics and communication monitoring, Impetus' emphasis on continuous innovation adds significant value to its clients' technology initiatives.
Impetus was founded in 1991 as a software product development company and Impetus Infotech India Pvt. Ltd. was incorporated in 2000.
Impetus has been recognized at various platforms, including being ranked in Red herring 100 Asia 2008, Deloitte Technology Fast 500 in 2008 and was among the NASSCOM Top 100 IT Innovators 2007. Impetus received the Best Software Exporter Award in 2007 and 2009 for the state of Madhya Pradesh and also The Economic Times, Acer, Intel "Smart Workplace Award 2008". Impetus has been also featured in Gartner's 'Cool Vendors in IT Services and Sourcing' report for 2009.
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