1. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_computing
   2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_storage_density
   3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-generated_data
   4. Changqing Ji, Yu Li, Wenming Qiu, Uchechukwu Awada, Keqiu Li, “Big Data Processing in Cloud Computing Environments”.
   5. Nandan Mirajkar, Sandeep Bhujbal , Aaradhana Deshmukh, “Perform wordcount Map-Reduce Job in Single Node Apache Hadoop cluster and compress data using Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer (LZO) algorithm”
   6. http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800- 146/sp800-146.pdf
   7. Ibid
   8. Ibid
   9. Ibid
   10. http://www.gartner.com/it-glossary/big-data
   11. “Cloud Computing: Concepts, Technology & Architecture” (The Prentice Hall Service Technology) by Thomas Erl, Ricardo Puttini and Zaigham Mahmood (May 20, 2013)
   12. “Java The Complete Reference”, 8th Edition by Herbert Schildt,8 Aug 2011.
   13. https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-projectdist/hadoop-hdfs/HdfsDesign.html
   14. Ibid
   15. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Hadoop
   16. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ElasticMapReduce/latest/ DeveloperGuide/emr-what-is-emr.html
   17. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/gsg/Get StartedWithS3.html
   18. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
   19. http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/2014.09- release-notes/