Analytics is all the rage, with Hadoop and big data leading the hype. But the new technologies are not yet mature, a market full of startups is yet to shake out,… Read more »
Big data vendor Cloudera is no Google when it comes to data center footprint, but the cost and complexity of its infrastructure are growing with each passing year. Cloudera VP of… Read more »
Coursera co-founder and Stanford researcher Andrew Ng is leaving his day-to-day role at Coursera and joining Chinese search engine provider Baidu as its chief scientist. Ng is among a handful of… Read more »
With Hortonworks’ acquisition of XA Secure, Hadoop gets some enterprise-level security. It’s a big step, but open-source Hadoop has further to go in its quest for robust, fine-grained access control. Read more »
Artificial intelligence techniques such as natural-language processing and computer vision will someday revolutionize our world. First, they’ll probably help retailers sell us more stuff. Read more »
Hortonworks has bought a startup called XA Secure that’s focused on securing the entire Hadoop cluster and enforcing compliance with company-wide policies. The technology should be open sourced as an Apache… Read more »
The networking vendor is claiming an industry first with the encrypted version of its 100G Metro technology, which aims to handle large, fast-flowing amounts of data with as much security as… Read more »
Eric Baldeschwieler, the founding CEO of Hortonworks and former Yahoo VP who led the company’s Hadoop development efforts, is now a strategic adviser to Hadoop startup DataTorrent. The company, which won the Structure… Read more »
In practice, many organizations find that they are unable to leverage the benefits the cloud can bring because they are hampered by existing infrastructure and operational constraints. Read more »
Deep learning startup AlchemyAPI is expanding its scope from text analysis to computer vision with a new API-based service called AlchemyVision. The company’s neural network system is continuously scanning images on… Read more »