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 »
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 »
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 »
The new system, called TSAR, acts as a real-time data orchestrator and makes it easier for product teams to receive insights into Twitter’s data much faster than before. Read more »
Dell, Cloudera and Intel are working together on an appliance designed to speed the performance of Hadoop environments by moving a lot more data into a shared memory space. Key to… Read more »
To ensure that ARM or other alternative architectures don’t gain ground in the data center, Intel is launching a customizable chip that marries its Xeon CPUs with an FPGA. Read more »
Dropbox is acquiring a data visualization startup called Parastructure, according to TechCrunch. It’s one of those deals where nobody is talking yet, but what little info is publicly available about Parastructure helps… 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 »