Did you hear the clap of thunder in the big data ecosystem today? If so, it was only just Cloudera, Inc. and Hortonworks, Inc. jointly announcing that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which the companies will combine in an all-stock merger of equals. The transaction, which has been unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies, will create the world’s leading next generation data platform provider.
Hadoop-as-a-Service: The Need Of The Hour For Superior Business Solutions
September 7, 2018 by Leave a Comment
In this contributed article, content writer Swamini Kulkarni discusses how the launch of new platforms based on HaaS solutions demonstrate that Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) is a promising solution for building and managing the big data cluster, which will compel organizations to consider Hadoop as a potential solution for big data challenges.
Interview: Jamie Engesser, VP Product Mangement at Hortonworks
July 11, 2018 by 1 Comment
I recently caught up with Jamie Engesser, VP Product Mangement at Hortonworks during the company’s DataWorks Summit 2018 conference in San Jose, California, to get an update on his company’s direction and his sense for the pulse of the big data industry.
Hortonworks Data Platform 3.0 Enables Containerization and Deep Learning Workloads
June 18, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Hortonworks, Inc.® (NASDAQ: HDP), a leading provider of global data management solutions, today announced Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 3.0, which delivers significant new enterprise features including containerization for faster and easier deployment of applications, and increased developer productivity. The new version of HDP enables customers to more quickly, reliably and securely get value from their data at scale to drive business transformation.
Big Data, Hadoop & Cloud: Tackling a Chain of Emerging Challenges
January 22, 2018 by 1 Comment
In this special guest feature, Chandra Ambadipudi, CEO of Clairvoyant, provides a compelling tour de force through the recent history of the big data industry and how Hadoop and the cloud have made steady acceleration possible. Also offered are recommendations for how to address several challenges faced by enterprises with respect to big data cloud implementations.
Business Lessons from Hadoop’s Non-Failure
September 27, 2017 by 1 Comment
In this special guest feature, Hiro Yoshikawa, co-founder and CEO of Treasure Data, counters the growing perception that Hadoop is a failure and focuses on the lessons that organizations can learn from the rush to adopt Hadoop.
ESG Labs Confirms MapR Outperforms Cassandra and HBase by 10x in the Cloud
August 31, 2017 by Leave a Comment
MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the Converged Data Platform that fully integrates analytics with operational processes in real time, announced that Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) published an ESG Technical Review that evaluated the performance and scalability of running MapR-DB in the cloud, and compared results with two open-source NoSQL database offerings.
IBM Combines All-Flash and Storage Software Optimized for Hortonworks
July 31, 2017 by Leave a Comment
IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced a new all-flash, high-performance data and file management solution for enterprise clients running exabyte-scale big data analytics, cognitive and AI applications. The combined flash and storage software solution has been certified with the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) to provide clients with more choice in selecting the right platform for their big data analytics on data processing engines like Hadoop and Spark.
Arcadia Data Simplifies Security for Native Visual Analytics on Big Data
July 1, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Arcadia Data, provider of the native visual analytics software for big data, has extended support for a unified security and management solution native to Apache Hadoop that includes certified integration with Apache Ranger. This announcement continues the company’s security strategy after the in-cluster security solution announced last year that enhanced its capabilities to deliver secure data directly in Hadoop, cloud, and other modern data platforms without sacrificing granular access control, overcoming the complexities of extraction, data movement and fragmented permission models inherent to legacy BI and analytics architectures that run outside of Hadoop.
BlueData, Intel Compare Bare-Metal & Containers for Big Data Workloads
June 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Has your business ever tried to decide between a bare-metal environment or a container-based environment for dealing with Big Data needs? BlueData and Intel collaborated to discuss this very issue in a benchmark study of the performance of Big Data workloads.
