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 »
Health care players are making open data as much a part of their business models as they are for slick marketing campaigns. But for an industry that still relies on fax… 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 »
Google rolled out a slew of new cloud services at I/O, including one called Dataflow that’s meant to put standard MapReduce to shame. It’s advertised a much simpler way to build… Read more »
NASA is launching a new challenge, hosted on Amazon Web Services, that gives the public access to a trove of earth sciences data and computational resources in the name of discovering… 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 »
The data analytics company has a product to help users of VMware environments keep track of all their virtual infrastructure and discover performance issues. Read more »
Amid a perfect storm of market drivers and use cases like the BYOD phenomenon and the emergence of cloud technologies, this year we have seen enterprises overcome the inertia to start… 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 »