Hadoop

24 May, 2013

Hadoop 2.0 & YARN: Get Ready For This Summer’s Big Data Breakthrough

Lately, it seems like Hadoop, the open source data platform seemingly so integral to the rise of Big Data, can’t catch a break. Instead of relying on Hadoop as a key Big Data storage and analysis tool, vendors and observers are increasingly positioning it as “just” a storage tool…

Publication: ReadWrite

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23 May, 2013

Analytics Is Not A Strategy

The tools of analytics have advanced significantly since Michael Lewis’ book, yet the “moneyball” strategy is unchanged.

Analytics involves the tools of data gathering, data management, statistical analysis, data visualization and information systems to deliver better information, more efficiently, to decision makers within an organization…

Publication: All Things D

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17 May, 2013

Splunk And Cloudera Team On Hadoop

Splunk, the real-time operational intelligence platform, and Cloudera, the Apache Hadoop player, have fashioned a strategic alliance to deliver Big Data analytics across the enterprise…

Publication: Big Data Journal

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13 May, 2013

Big Data May Be A Pretty Small Problem

The idea that a business needs data analysis to make better business decisions is not in dispute… but there is a strong debate on how big a data set a business actually needs and how much they need to spend to get that data.

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Publication: ReadWrite

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10 May, 2013

Hadoop Adoption Accelerates, But Not For Data Analytics

The Hadoop market is on a tear, growing at a compound annual growth rate of roughly 60%, according to IDC. But why it’s growing, or rather, how it’s being used, might surprise you…

Publication: ReadWrite

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9 May, 2013

Splunk, Cloudera Form Data Integration Alliance

Splunk, which has been on a partnership tear of late, forged a partnership with Cloudera so the two enterprise Hadoop players can easily swap data between platforms…

Publication: ZDNet

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9 May, 2013

Why 3 Celebrity Data Scientists Are Willing To Work For Free — For You

Hadoop startup Mortar Data is offering to build recommendation systems for 10 companies, with help from Hilary Mason, Drew Conway and Max Shron. It’s part of a bigger plan to democratize the science behind online recommendations…

Publication: GigaOm

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7 May, 2013

Look, IBM Is Doing SQL On Hadoop, Too

IBM’s entrant in the SQL-on-Hadoop competition has been flying under the radar, but is available as a technology preview. Called Big SQL, it’s a big deal if IBM wants to be a major player in the Hadoop space…

Publication: GigaOm

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25 April, 2013

Big Data Can Be A Big Headache For Data Defenders

Recent technology allows tons of threat data to be analyzed and used to thwart intruders. In the enterprise, it can be used to analyze volumes of network traffic to reveal insider trouble and advanced persistent threats.

Problem is, the network architecture that supports big data wasn’t created with security…

Publication: CSO Online

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