What resources do you recommend to learn more about big data ? books, websites, certain articles. etc

Hi !!

Below are the details for self learning - 

a)      A very good course on intro to MapReduce and Hadoop, first two lectures

                http://www.cs.washington.edu/education/courses/cse490h/08au/lectures.htm

b)      http://hadoop.apache.org/

Below are some of resources for free Big Data/Hadoop knowledge.

c)       Cloudera - http://university.cloudera.com/onlineresources/clouderaessentials

d)      Horton Works-http://hortonworks.com/videos/

e)      IBM BigData University - http://bigdatauniversity.com

f)       Map R Academy -http://www.mapr.com/academy/training.html

g)      EMC - http://bigdatablog.emc.com/tag/hadoop/

h)      Intel Hadoop - http://hadoop.intel.com/resources

i)        HP Vertica - http://www.vertica.com/the-analytics-platform/native-bi-etl-and-hadoop-mapreduce-integration/

j)        Books - Hadoop in Acton

              Hadoop: The definitive guide  

              Hadoop real-world solutions cookbook

Please install freely available VM Ware in your laptop and do the experiments !!! . Please let me know if you need more information.

Thanks,

Sudheer