Hadoop vendor Cloudera has acquired Gazzang, a startup specializing in encryption for Hadoop environments, as well as others next-generation data stores such as Cassandra and MongoDB. Read more »
Big data startup ConcurrentĀ has raised a $10 million series B round of venture capital fromĀ Bain Capital Ventures, Rembrandt Ventures and True Ventures (Disclosure: True Ventures is also an investor in Gigaom)… Read more »
Investors are betting that companies will take to Trifacta’s interactive, visual management capabilities that allow users to organize and clean data without having to deal with coding. Read more »
Hadoop can be an efficient and cost-effective tool for offloading some of the data processing currently done inside the enterprise data warehouse. Read more »
Raymie Stata, current co-founder and CEO of Hadoop startup Altiscale and ex-Yahoo CTO, came on the Structure Show this week to talk about why Hadoop matters, why who’s building it matters… Read more »
Early Altiscale customers include digital media and advertising companies eager to take advantage of big data but don’t necessarily know a node from a hole in the wall. Read more »
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 experts Andy Palmer and Michael Stonebraker launched a new data automation cleanup tool as part of the duo’s company Tamr. The software tool helps big companies organize sloppy data… Read more »