The focus of these classes has always been to provide intense lab work – with industry focus; idea is to get the you ready for the real world, and being hands-on with Hadoop technologies, than just bookish knowledge which you can always get by reading around. The gurus will, of course, be there to guide and mentor you all the time.
We will also provide all infrastructure required for performing the lab work.
For example: We would provide an Hadoop cluster on Amazon EC2, complete with sample data & java code for you to run & see its execution. You will also have the opportunity to write your own Java MapReduce code and execute it on the cluster. And best of all, you wouldn’t have to install anything on your laptops, except FireFox browser and probably some extensions. Thus, you can focus on the studying the concepts rather than worrying about setting up your development environments!

Nope! We have a ‘Zero-Install‘ policy for you.
You wouldn’t have to install anything on your laptops, except FireFox browser and probably some extensions. Thus, you can focus on the studying the concepts rather than worrying about setting up your development environments!

Yes, you just have to bring your computer to the class which can access the internet and has Firefox installed.
(Now, are we asking for too much? We don’t think so!)

Yes, that’s the idea.
The focus of these classes has always been to provide intense lab work – with industry focus; idea is to get the you ready for the real world, and being hands-on with Hadoop technologies, than just bookish knowledge which you can always get by reading around. The gurus will, of course, be there to guide and mentor you all the time. We will also provide all infrastructure required for performing the lab work.

These classes are conducted by Third Eye Cloud Services, a division of Third Eye Consulting Services & Solutions LLC.. You can find out more about the company here.

Well, to start with, we have gurus taking the class and not “instructors”! They are NOT professional instructors but are hands-on gurus in their respective domains! They don’t have extensive teaching backgrounds nor have they taken such classes themselves. Our Gurus have been working in the industry for decades, have assimilated these technologies (as they themselves evolved) & have been architects of Hadoop based solutions in their respective workplaces.
We blogged about our gurus here: “Our Instructors are Better than Yours…”
You can see the details of the gurus here.