The document discusses the syllabus for a course on Big Data Analytics. The syllabus covers four units: (1) an introduction to big data concepts like distributed file systems, Hadoop, and MapReduce; (2) Hadoop architecture including HDFS, MapReduce, and YARN; (3) Hadoop ecosystem components like Hive, Pig, HBase, and Spark; and (4) new features of Hadoop 2.0 like high availability for NameNode and HDFS federation. The course aims to provide students with foundational knowledge of big data technologies and tools for processing and analyzing large datasets.