Some resources to get started with Hadoop
Cloudera and other sides have made available a number of resources for help all of us to get up to speed with using Hadoop etc.
So if you are starting out with Hadoop here is a short list of key resources that I have found very useful.
Cloudera Hapood Virtual Machine
Cloudera Newsletter for Developers
Udacity course : Introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce
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