Store
Automagically Moving Legacy Hadoop To The Cloud
Always on the lookout for the kernel of a new platform, we chronicled the steady rise and sharp fall of Hadoop as the go-to open source analytics platform. …
Hadoop
Store
The Opposite Of Snowflake: Analytics Without The Data Warehouse
As we have pointed out before, large enterprises have to deal with a different kind of scale issue than the hyperscalers, and in many ways, the hyperscalers have it easier. …
Compute
The Endless Pursuit Of Scale At LinkedIn
There is nothing at all wrong with legacy application and system software as long as it can deliver scalability, reliability, and performance. …
Store
Getting Hadoop to Jump Through AI/ML Hoops
Just a decade ago, the enterprise IT push was to make Hadoop the platform for storage and analytics. …
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. …
Enterprise
Why the Fortune 500 is (Just) Finally Dumping Hadoop
Remember how, just a decade ago, Hadoop was the cure to all the world’s large-scale enterprise IT problems? …
Compute
Hadoop Pioneer MapR Faces An Uncertain Future
It is no secret that the big three commercial Hadoop distributors have been running into headwinds in recent years as more workloads and data have made their way into the public cloud and that these Hadoop platform providers have spent a lot of money and time to expand their stacks beyond the basic open source Hadoop. …
Edge
Big Data In Little Spaces: Hadoop And Spark At The Edge
The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. …
Store
Breaking Out of the Hadoop Cocoon
The announcement last fall that top Hadoop vendors Cloudera and Hortonworks were coming together in a $5.2 billion merger – and reports about the financial toll that their competition took on each other in the quarters leading up to the deal – revived questions that have been raised in recent years about the future of Hadoop in an era where more workloads are moving into public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offer a growing array of services that many of the jobs that the open-source technology already does. …
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. …