Interview: Jack Norris, SVP Data and Applications at MapR

I recently caught up with Jack Norris, Senior Vice President of Data and Applications at Mapr, to discuss how microservices in support of a converge data platform can provide a unique set of benefits to customers.

How IoT & Pre-emptive Analytics at the Edge Change How We Think About Applications

In this special guest feature, Scott Gnau, CTO of Hortonworks, welcomes us to the future of data where the modern data application will need to be highly portable, containerized and connected.

Jethro to Release Jethro Acceleration Engine 2.0 with Auto-cubes

Jethro, provider of an index-based SQL acceleration engine that makes Business Intelligence (BI) work on Hadoop, is slated to release Jethro 2.0 featuring “auto-cubes.”

BlueTalon Brings Fine-Grained User Access Control, Filtering, and Data Masking to DataStax and Apache Cassandra

BlueTalon®, Inc., a leader in Data-Centric Security, announced BlueTalon 3.1 and the addition of DataStax Enterprise, the database for cloud applications built on Apache Cassandra™, to the list of supported data platforms.

Interview: Justin Kestelyn, Technical Evangelism & Developer Relations at Cloudera

While at Hadoop Summit 2016, I had the opportunity to catch up with Justin Kestelyn, Technical Evangelism & Developer Relations at Cloudera, to discuss all the progress his company has made in the past year and what’s in store for the future.

Interview: Ravi Mayuram, SVP Products & Engineering at Couchbase

I recently caught up with Ravi Mayuram, SVP Products & Engineering at Couchbase, to discuss recent developments in the NoSQL database industry such as the relationship with Hadoop and Spark, container technology, security, and much more.

Reflecting on Ten Years of Hadoop

In this special guest feature, Ashish Thusoo, co-founder & CEO of Qubole, discusses how he’s seen Hadoop evolve over the past decade, what his experience was with it when it first hit the scene, where he thinks it fits in the data ecosystem today and what he believes the future holds for Hadoop.

Coho Data Expands Portfolio Towards Making the SDDC a Reality

Coho Data, a leading innovator and provider of true scale-out all flash storage architecture and infrastructure solutions for private clouds, announced DataStream 2.8, helping to make the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) a reality.

Waterline Data Unveils Universal Data Catalog to Empower Citizen Data Scientists

Waterline Data, The Smart Data Catalog Company, continues to clear the hurdles impeding Hadoop adoption in the enterprise by announcing the immediate availability of Smart Data Catalog 3.0.

Four Best Practices for Setting up Your Data Lake in Hadoop

In this special guest feature, Carole Gunst, Marketing Director at Attunity, offers four best practices for setting up your data lake in Hadoop.