Hadoop has graduated from open source curiosity to de facto industry standard. And when standards emerge, so do lots of tools and companion projects that build upon them. Companies looking to… Read more »
MapR has raised $110 million, $80 million of which is equity financing, in order to fuel its growing Hadoop business in the face of better-known rivals Cloudera and Hortonworks. Like those… Read more »
Hadoop is a complex technology, so it helps to have friends in high places when you’re trying to develop it and integrate webscale tooling into enterprise environments. For Hortonworks, that friend… Read more »
Hadoop can be an efficient and cost-effective tool for offloading some of the data processing currently done inside the enterprise data warehouse. Read more »
Analytics is all the rage, with Hadoop and big data leading the hype. But the new technologies are not yet mature, a market full of startups is yet to shake out,… Read more »
With Hortonworks’ acquisition of XA Secure, Hadoop gets some enterprise-level security. It’s a big step, but open-source Hadoop has further to go in its quest for robust, fine-grained access control. Read more »