Big Data Had Ooop!!!

If your a beginner and planning to learn more about big data and hadoop below are the few tutorials I recommend and I found interesting:

Books :
Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

Links:
++ Beginner Hadoop ++ 
http://www.cloudera.com/protected/?resource=introduction-to-apache-mapreduce-and-hdfs

http://nosqltapes.com/video/understanding-mapreduce-with-mike-miller



++ MapReduce Framework ++ 
Great 1 hour video introduction: http://nosqltapes.com/video/understanding-mapreduce-with-mike-miller

Read the famous 2004 paper from Google that kicked off the MapReduce revolution. This is a very readable paper that can be digested in about 2 - 3 hours:http://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce.html

Here's a 33 minute video on what kinds of simple things you can do with MapReduce: 
http://www.cloudera.com/videos/mapreduce_algorithms

Google's MapReduce course: 
http://code.google.com/edu/parallel/mapreduce-tutorial.html


These are few I have read, I will keep adding links to this as and when I get a good article that catches my wink.