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? …
Hortonworks
AI
Hadoop And Spark Get A Vector Performance Boost
Ever since the “Aurora” vector processor designed by NEC was launched last year, we have been wondering if it might be used as a tool to accelerate workloads other than the traditional HPC simulation and modeling jobs that are based on crunching numbers in single and double precision floating point. …
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
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
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. …
AI
Hortonworks Keeps Time With Hadoop’s Cloud March
Over the last eighteen months Hadoop distribution vendor, Hortonworks, has watched a stampede of users rush to the cloud, prompting the company to look for better ways to extend usability for first-time entrants to Hadoop territory and to accommodate the rush of test and dev workloads that prefer quick cloud deployments. …