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Quality training is the single most important factor that
will influence a customer's success with Netezza. As a Netezza
user, your registration package for Enzee Universe includes
the option to attend this year’s pre-conference
Best Practices session and any of the four
post-conference training classes. In addition to
our traditional Netezza Data Warehouse
Appliance Usage course, we’ll be offering
three brand new courses: Advanced
Analytics Inside TwinFin i-Class, Mantra
Basics, and R Modeling
for TwinFin i-Class.
Space in these classes is limited, so sign
up today to reserve your spot.
Detailed Course Information:
Netezza Data Warehouse Appliance Usage
Description & Objectives
This course will teach students database administration of
the Netezza data warehouse appliance. The Netezza Data Warehouse
Appliance Usage course is designed to give the student an
overview of the Netezza data warehouse appliance architecture
and provide a working knowledge and understanding of the Netezza
database features and best practices. The Netezza Data Warehouse
Appliance Usage course will provide an overview of Netezza’s
high availability architecture and administration. Students
will be able to administer the Netezza appliance, configure
client connectivity, create users and groups, create databases
and tables, determine optimal distribution methods, load and
unload tables, generate statistics, analyze query performance
and plans, create materialized views and backup and restore
the Netezza system.
Format
Classroom lecture
Audience
Database administrators, system administrators, application
developers and data warehouse architects
Course Length
2.0 days: 12pm Wednesday, June 23 to 12pm Friday, June 25,
2010
Delivery
Enzee Universe 2010, Boston, MA
Student Prerequisites
- Working knowledge of Unix or Linux
- Experience with Shell Scripting
- Experience with VI or EMACS Editing
- Basic SQL experience
Advanced Analytics Inside TwinFin i-Class
Description and Objectives
Advanced Analytics Inside TwinFin i-Class is an intense, two-day
immersion into the world of compute-intensive analytics as
defined by Netezza. This hands-on, comprehensive experience
will give you the knowledge and confidence to attack your
most difficult analytic challenges. Topics include analytic
executables (our new programming paradigm for advanced analytics),
shared libraries support, expanded languages (R, Java, Python,
Fortran), matrix operations, our plug-in to the popular Eclipse
IDE and a few other topics not publicly announced yet. At
the end of this experience you will understand how to use
Netezza for analytics and why it is the only environment you
will need.
Format
Hands-on classroom lecture, lab exercises, tour
Audience
Analytic developers/users, data miners
Course Length
2.0 days: 12pm Wednesday, June 23 to 12pm Friday, June 25,
2010
Delivery
Enzee Universe 2010, Boston, MA (with dinner and excursion/tour
to Netezza Corporate offices)
Student Prerequisites
- Proficient in at least one: C/C++, Java, Python, R, Fortran
- At least working knowledge of parallel computing/systems
- Have analytic, compute-intensive challenges
- Understanding of data mining and analytics
- Helpful background: SQL, NPS, Eclipse
Mantra Basics
Description and Objectives
This course is designed to provide an overview of Mantra’s
capabilities, including:
- Discovery – automatically find sensitive information
by identifying your data assets and categorizing their content
- Policy Management – easily create and maintain compliance
controls and security policies
- Reports & Workflow – provide your organization
with critical visibility and auditors with consistent, standardized
compliance reports
Format
Lecture
Audience
Day-to-day Mantra end-users (Database Administrator, Security
Analyst, or IT Auditor)
Course Length
1.0 day: 12pm Wednesday, June 23 to 12pm Thursday, June 24,
2010
R Modeling for TwinFin i-Class
Objective
Learn how to use TwinFin i-Class for scaling up the R language.
Description
In this class, you’ll learn how to use R to create models
using huge data and how to create R algorithms that exploit
our asymmetric massively parallel (AMPP®) architecture.
Netezza has seamlessly integrated with R to offload the heavy
lifting of the computational processing on TwinFin i-Class.
This results in higher performance and increased scalability
for R. Sign up for this class to learn how to take advantage
of TwinFin i-Class for your R modeling. Topics include:
- R CRAN package installation on TwinFin i-Class
- Creating models using R on TwinFin i-Class
- Creating R algorithms for TwinFin i-Class
Format
Hands-on classroom lecture, lab exercises, tour
Audience
Knowledgeable R users – modelers, analytic developers,
data miners
Course Length
0.5 day: 12pm-4pm Wednesday, June 23
Delivery
Enzee Universe 2010, Boston, MA
Student Prerequisites
- Working knowledge of R and parallel computing
- Have analytic, compute-intensive challenges
- Understanding of data mining and analytics
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