Store
Why Cloudera Might Be Worth $5.3 Billion After All
What is a legacy data management and data analytics platform with 1,800 large enterprise customers worth? …
Cloudera
Store
Cloudera Pivots To Data Management As Hadoop Fades
It was only two years ago that Cloudera, once one of the top vendors in what had been a white-hot Hadoop market, found itself fighting for survival. …
Compute
Hadoop Needs To Be A Business, Not Just A Platform
It is safe to say that a little more than a decade ago, when the clone of Google’s MapReduce and Google File System distributed storage and computing platform was cloned at Yahoo and offered up to the world as a way to transform the nature of data analytics at scale, that we all had much higher hopes for the emergence of platforms centered around Hadoop that would change enterprise, not just webscale, computing. …
AI
Cloudera Puffs Up Analytics Database For Clouds
In many ways, public clouds like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform can be the great equalizers, giving enterprises access to computing and storage resources that they may not have the money to be able to bring into their on-premises environments. …
AI
Looking Down The Long Enterprise Road With Hadoop
Just five years ago, the infrastructure space was awash in stories about the capabilities cooked into the Hadoop platform—something that was, even then, only a few pieces of code cobbled onto the core HDFS distributed storage with MapReduce serving as the processing engine for analytics at scale. …
AI
Hype Over, Hadoop Gets Down to Business
In the decade that Hadoop has been a force, first as an independent research endeavor, then as a project at Yahoo, before moving swiftly into Facebook, LinkedIn, and other webscale datacenters, the entire data landscape changed. …
AI
A Decade of Hadoop: Creator Cutting on the Right Place for the Right Time
Without discounting the extraordinary amount of work and creativity that goes into developing the next big architectural trend, there is something to be said for being at the right place at the right time—and having the perfect blend of the correct skills and experiences to meet the moment. …
AI
Spark Makes Hadoop Mainstream, Cloudera Jumps In
It is probably a good thing that Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop, named the batch-mode data analytics product he created at Yahoo after his child’s stuffed animal rather than something specific like MapReduce Engine. …
AI
Scale And Database Pioneer Talks Hadoop Evolution
Hadoop started out as a batch-oriented system for chewing through massive amounts of unstructured data on the cheap, enabling all sorts of things such as search engines and advertising systems. …
AI
We Need Only Three Hadoops, And Maybe Three Systems
Enterprises like choices, they abhor vendor lock in, and they like the options that open source gives. …