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Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden came on the Structure Show this week to discuss many thing, including HP’s $50 million investment in the Hadoop startup, the competitive landscape in Hadoop and why… Read more »
The social scrapbook and visual discovery site, which processes about a petabyte of data daily, uses the Hadoop-as-a-service startup Qubole to handle Hadoop jobs and Puppet for its data processing configuration. Read more »
Another day, another Hadoop investment. This time, it’s Hewlett-Packard bankrolling Hortonworks to the tune of $50 million. Your move, Cloudera. Read more »
There was a lot of news about Spark’s ascension in the big data ranks this week, as well as some speculation. According to Cloudera’s Mike Olson, his company is widely embracing… Read more »
Big data startup Databricks keeps humming along, announcing on Monday a large round of venture capital and a new cloud service that aims to seed adoption of Spark — a framework… Read more »
WANdisco, a company specializing in keeping Hadoop and HBase environments running in the case of system failures, has acquired a startup called OhmData that claims to have built a better version… Read more »