Click here to learn more about author Ariel Amster. It’s been said that, “With great power comes great responsibility”. And when it comes to leveraging the power of Big Data, organizations have a responsibility to manage vast stores of sensitive data in order to meet strict compliance rules. But in light of ever growing regulations that govern […]
Hadoop Overview: A Big Data Toolkit
Big Data isn’t new. Forbes traces the origins back to the “information explosion” concept first identified in 1941. The challenge has been to develop practical methods for dealing with the 3Vs: Volume, Variety, and Velocity. Without tools to support and simplify the manipulation and analysis of large data sets, the ability to use that data […]
5 Open Source Tools You Should Learn to Boost Your Data Career
by Angela Guess Sam Dean recently wrote in Linux, “A decade ago, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst predicted that open source tools and platforms would become pervasive in IT. Fast-forward to today, and that prediction has come true, with profound implications for the employment market… In particular, open source cloud, Big Data and networking platforms […]
No Relief with Hadoop – Managing The Big Data Reality Gap
Click here to learn more about author Jon Bock. There has been much anticipation that businesses would find relief for their analytics headaches in Hadoop, the open source software for distributed processing and distributed storage of large data sets across clusters of commodity or cloud hardware. There is no doubt Hadoop systems can handle large […]
The Elephant in the Cloud, According to Ashish Thusoo
by Angela Guess Srini Penchikala recently wrote in InfoQ, “Ashish Thusoo, CEO and co-founder at Qubole, recently spoke at Enterprise Data World Conference (EDW) about ‘The Elephant in the Cloud’, Hadoop as a Service offering. Part of a wider trend of big data as a service category rather than a product category, Hadoop as a […]
Hortonworks Data Platform Delivers Security and Governance Integration for Hadoop
by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports, “Hortonworks, Inc., a leading innovator of open and connected data platforms, today announced several key updates to Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP™). HDP allows customers to accumulate, analyze and act on information derived from data, and is 100% open source… For the first time, Apache […]
3 Best Practices for Utilizing Hadoop
by Angela Guess Scott Fleming and Paul Barsch of Teradata recently wrote in Forbes, “It makes sense to get excited about the possibilities afforded by Apache Hadoop YARN-based applications such as Spark, Storm, Presto and others to provide substantial business value. However, the actual tasks of managing and maintaining the environment should not get short […]
Are Spark and Hadoop Allies, or Are They Enemies?
Click here to learn more about Ariel Amster. Any discussion about big data and the merits of analytics will in all likelihood eventually involve the topics of Hadoop and Spark. This discussion more than often becomes a debate over which is better. After all, both share similarities in that they are both big data frameworks. Many […]
8 Big Data Trends to Watch For
by Angela Guess Tom Phelan, Chief Architect of BlueData, recently wrote in InsideBigData, “Over the next year, a growing number of customers will realize the vast business benefits of Big Data and will deploy Big Data solutions across their organization. Technical innovations, the rise of BDaaS, a shifting approach to data locality, platform convergence and […]
Webinar: SQL on Hadoop for Enterprise Analytics
To view just the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar was sponsored by: About the Webinar Hear why SQL on Hadoop is the future of analytics. Mike Xu, Looker Data Architect and Evangelist will share how recent updates to SQL query engines like Spark and Presto are finally allowing companies to harness Hadoop’s processing […]