Workshop on Big Data & Cloud Computing

Department of Computer Science & Technology of Manav Rachna University organized a one day workshop on ‘Big Data & Cloud Computing’ on 23rd February, 2017 for B.Tech. CSE/IT & M.Tech. CE students. Mr. Rohit Dhall, Enterprise Architect, HCL Technologies, was the speaker of the workshop. He shared his professional experience in the area with the students. He emphasized on practical examples by incorporating the actual industrial statistics and case studies in his presentation.

The Workshop was divided into two sessions. The agenda items for the Session-1 were: How is Big Data evolving, Business trends in Big Data, and Technology Trends in Big Data. Mr.Rohit Dhall covered these topics from an industry perspective and made the session very interactive. He motivated students to ask questions and share their thoughts. He also highlighted how business and clients want to utilize Big Data. This session was followed by high level working of 3 Big Data technologies: Hadoop, Hive & Kafka. Session-2 involved a Live demo, wherein he setup Big Data environment on one of the clouds and ran a sample use case to demonstrate the approach of how a Big Data system could be built.

Mr. Rohit motivated and guided the students to learn the advance technology, addressing the current needs of the industry. Overall, it was a very enlightening and an interactive session.