Christopher Riley's Cloud Computing Fundamentals for Developers & Architect

Christopher Riley's one day Cloud Computing Fundamentals course will provide you with technical and business expertise in several cloud computing platforms. You will gain a solid footing in cloud computing origins, terminology and service offerings, as well as detailed overviews of popular cloud platforms provided by Amazon, Google, Salesforce.com and Microsoft. Architecturally, you will explore common design patterns and service quality constraints. Finally, you will examine business terms in the pricing and service level agreements of the four major vendors. The class culminates by discussing the applicability of cloud platforms for various business cases. Find out more here

Daniel Sikar's Intro to the Hadoop Project, HBase, HDFS, Hive, MapReduce & Pig

This two-day course is a hands-on introduction to Hadoop. It will give you practical knowledge of the Hadoop toolkit. Hadoop Common, HBase, HDFS, Hive, MapReduce and Pig are open source projects and part of the Hadoop project, developed under the Apache Software Foundation. Find out more here

DataStax Training for Apache Cassandra

DataStax's training program takes you from 0 to 60 buiding scalable applications on Apache Cassandra. This session is appropriate for developers and DBAs looking to understand design principles involved in modeling against Cassandra, as well as best practices for deploying and maintaining a Cassandra cluster. This training will cover the new Cassandra 0.7 release. Find out more here