Hadoop Tutorials Launched by Hortonworks

Hortonworks announced a sandbox environment for Hadoop which aimed at giving new users and easy way to learn how to use Hadoop. The Hortonworks Sandox is designed to be an easy-to-use environment for learning Apache Hadoop. The program is a free download for a complete, self contained virtual machine with Apache Hadoop pre-configured. With the Hortonworks Sandbox you can also get a Web interface and set of hands-on, step-by-step tutorials. It is also designed to help close the gap between people wanting to learn and evaluate Hadoop. According to Hortonworks, the tutorials are built based upon what they learned while training people on its Hortonworks University Training classes. The Sandbox is a single node implementation of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 1.2, that behaves just like a normal Hadoop environment, which allows you to add your own datasets in an isolated protected environment to evaluate the use of Hadoop in your own data architectures. For more information you can visit the official site of Hortonworks Sandbox.