Enterprises have overwhelmingly committed to accelerating their transition to new technologies, with the goal in mind to free up IT investment dollars in order to create more strategic business-changing applications and… Read more »
This week brings a pair of tuck-in acquisitions, a new release and a partnership that deliver fit, finish and further Enterprise-mainstreaming of Hadoop and predictive analytics. The week’s events also include an important… Read more »
The trick to leveraging managed big data services is determining which projects are good candidates for outsourcing and then finding a service provider that can deliver immediate value while also reducing… Read more »
During the second quarter of 2014 we saw the rise of Docker as well as a few providers pushing harder to the cloud, the government finally beginning to make significant movement… Read more »
Hadoop has graduated from open source curiosity to de facto industry standard. And when standards emerge, so do lots of tools and companion projects that build upon them. Companies looking to… Read more »
Ever since Cloudera’s October, 2012 announcement of its Impala SQL-on-Hadoop engine, it seems the database industry has been obsessed with fusing the SQL query language with Hadoop. These various pairings have… Read more »
In the second quarter of 2014, new de facto standards emerged and galvanized, major cloud providers launched new analytics offerings, and mainstream databases began to take on attributes and capabilities of… 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 »