Hadoop vendor Hortonworks announced its first quarterly earnings as a publicly held company Tuesday, claiming $12.7 million in fourth-quarter revenue and $46 million in revenue during fiscal year 2014. The numbers… Read more »
Though DIY and hyper-convergence are two contrasting ways to deal with data growth and storage limitations, each has its merits and both can coexist in the same data center. Read more »
A few years ago, there was a shift in the world of machine learning. Companies, such as Skytree and Context Relevant, began popping up, promising to make it easier for companies… Read more »
Titles can be misleading. For example, the O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World conference took place in San Jose, California, this week but Hadoop wasn’t the star of the show. Based on… Read more »
Continuing its quest to make Microsoft Azure comfy for the non-Windows world, Microsoft just launched a preview of its Hadoop-based cloud tool (HDInsight) that runs on Linux. It’s also making its Azure ML machine learning… Read more »
Datadog, a startup that monitors the performance of users’ cloud computing servers, has acquired big data startup Mortar Data and intends to shutter the company’s existing cloud service. Mortar launched in… Read more »
There has been a rumor floating around since August (first, and subsequently, reported by Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet) that Microsoft is preparing to release its Cosmos big data system as… Read more »
So here’s some irony for you: For years, Andy Palmer and his oft-time startup partner Michael Stonebraker have pointed out that database software is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. Companies, they said,… Read more »
Microsoft has agreed to acquire Revolution Analytics, a company built around commercial software and support for the popular R statistical computing project. The open source R project is hugely popular among data… Read more »
What does it mean to be a Big Data developer? Does it mean you’re a data analyst who knows how to code? Does it mean you’re a hero developer who also… Read more »