Microsoft is expanding its Azure platform again, this time rolling out a NoSQL database service as well as a new search tool. It’s the kind of innovation Microsoft needs to focus… Read more »
The week in cloud. If you want to know how big your favorite vendor’s cloud business is — in scale, in revenue, in profitability … yeah, good luck with that. Read more »
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 »
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 »
Apache Spark might push MapReduce to the back burner faster than some people might like, but it will also boost the Hadoop overall ecosystem. The project’s co-creator Matei Zaharia explains why… Read more »
Matei Zaharia is a big Spark booster. He helped build the project into the force it’s become in big data analytics and is CTO of Databricks. 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 »
Raymie Stata, current co-founder and CEO of Hadoop startup Altiscale and ex-Yahoo CTO, came on the Structure Show this week to talk about why Hadoop matters, why who’s building it matters… Read more »
Early Altiscale customers include digital media and advertising companies eager to take advantage of big data but don’t necessarily know a node from a hole in the wall. Read more »