EMC-and-VMware spinoff Pivotal has reworked the pricing of its big data software in order to get more customers buying into its vision of a true data platform. It’s essentially giving away… Read more »
Apache Tajo, a relational database warehouse system for Hadoop, has graduated to to-level status within the Apache Software Foundation. It might be easy to overlook Tajo because its creators, committers and users are… Read more »
Hadoop pioneer Cloudera has said it closed on a $900 million round of financing that gives Intel an 18 percent stake in the company. Rumors had Intel’s investment at around $100… Read more »
The Apache Mahout project will now support Apache Spark and another data engine called H20 as it tries to retain its status as the go-to set of machine learning libraries for… Read more »
Cloudera and Intel have entered into an agreement that makes Intel Cloudera’s largest strategic investor and makes Cloudera Intel’s preferred partner for Hadoop distributions. It will forego its own distribution and… Read more »
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks has closed a fourth round of venture capital worth $100 million. It follows up on news last week that competitor Cloudera had closed its own $160 million round… Read more »
Big data startup Continuuity has open sourced a tool called Loom that’s designed to make deploying and managing large clusters a push-button experience. These types of tools are important as data-driven… Read more »
Even the biggest media companies are being buffeted by the task of collecting and using mass amounts of consumer and audience information — even as the media business itself continues to… Read more »
Platfora has raised an impressive $38 million third round of venture capital in order to grow its next-generation analytics product designed to run on Hadoop data. The company has lots of… Read more »
Hadoop pioneer Cloudera is reportedly raising “at least $200 million” from a group of investors that includes Hadoop competitor Intel. If true, it raises some interesting questions about how the two… Read more »