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Last week, I wrote briefly about Apache HBase pushing out its 1.0 release. Subsequently, news of several more new releases of Big Data-related projects rolled out of the Apache Software Foundation. I… Read more »
After last week’s somewhat encyclopedic (and I mean that self-effacingly) Strata news roll-up, this week’s post focuses on just a couple of items: Microsoft’s collection of cloud data announcements (which also… Read more »
The holiday season news drought in data and analytics is definitely over. A bunch of announcements from commercial vendors, and others from the open source world, have hit in the last week, and… Read more »
Apache Drill has graduated to Top-Level Project status. Is it merely ready for primetime or will it succeed there? And does the Big Data world need another SQL-on-Hadoop engine? Read more »
While some websites were forced offline as a result of Xen hypervisor updates affecting multiple cloud providers, Netflix once again remained up entirely. The biggest fear last weekend was for the… Read more »
DataStax, like a couple other of its NoSQL peers, has come a long way since it launched a few years ago. Now valued at $830 million and selling into some of… Read more »
There are big changes afoot atop Citrix’s cloud organization as Sameer Dholakia, Shannon WIlliams and Sheng Liang depart and Klaus Oestermann heads a revamped organization. Read more »
According to statistics from job site Indeed.com, postings including the phrase “data scientist” are dropping like a rock, while those including the phrases “data science” and “big data” are on the… Read more »
Hadoop startup Altiscale is close to completing its mission to make Docker a suitable environment for running Hadoop jobs. One of the big remaining issues has to do with network security… Read more »