Tag: Cloudera
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Yahoo Mulls Spinoff for Hadoop Software Unit
Yahoo is considering to turn Hadoop into a business, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. Ovum’s Tony Baer has a more detailed analysis at his blog in Yahoo to Hadoop: Show me the Money.
In the long run, we also expect IBM to make a stab at Hadoop and related technologies by extending its InfoSphere offerings -– it can see Cloudera-Informatica and Cloudera-MicroStrategy raise it one with its own InfoSphere DataStage and Cognos offerings, before it even talks about partnerships.… Continued
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Structure Big Data Roundup
Good number of articles from Derrick Harris over at GigaOm rounding up the Structure Big Data Conference. First, there’s a look at Hadoop, Cloudera, and alternatives to Cloudera from IBM, DataStax, Hadapt etc. in As Big Data Takes Off, the Hadoop Wars Begin, and second there’s a piece about Why Big Data Startups Should Take a Narrow View:
[…] analyzing social media data is not the same, either in technique or in purpose, as analyzing user data to feed a recommendation engine for a site like Netflix.… Continued
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Cloudera’s Olson Says Data Will Transform Industry
Great Bloomberg interview with Cloudera CEO Mike Olson on open source and big data.
Via the 451 group
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Meet Mapr, a Competitor to Hadoop Leader Cloudera
Meet Mapr, a Competitor to Hadoop Leader Cloudera.
They are said to be building a proprietary replacement for the Hadoop Distributed File System that’s allegedly three times faster than the current open-source version. It comes with snapshots and no NameNode single point of failure (SPOF), and is supposed to be API-compatible with HDFS, so it can be a drop-in replacement.… Continued
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How Cloudera Became a Leader in BI/Hadoop
With a flurry of recent BI-oriented partnerships, it’s no surprise Cloudera is attracting so much interest.
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Teradata, Cloudera team up on Hadoop data warehousing
Does anybody remember as far back as two months ago? That’s when I asked
All these connectors being announced makes me think there’s somebody out there with a matrix of RDBMS and NoSQL systems, looking at which combinations don’t have a marketable connector yet so he can be first to market.… Continued
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Simplification Through Specialization
Ramon Chen’s post Simplification Through Specialization (later repeated on the Rainstor blog) rang quite a bell with me, also on the personal level. But here’s why specialization is better for some:
If you were going to spend big bucks, you’d expect results and performance to match your use cases and requirements.… Continued
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Cloudera connects Netezza and Hadoop
Cloudera and Netezza Team Up to Bring Hadoop to Customers, so we read. All these connectors being announced makes me think there’s somebody out there with a matrix of RDBMS and NoSQL systems, looking at which combinations don’t have a marketable connector yet so he can be first to market.… Continued
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Hadoop Update
A slew of updates on Apache Hadoop, nicely compiled by the nice folks at the 451 group:
- Cloudera launched v3 of its Distribution for Hadoop and released v1 of Cloudera Enterprise.
- Karmasphere released new Professional and Analyst Editions of its Hadoop development and deployment studio.