Tag Archives: Apache Hadoop

March 20, 2013 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Hadoop Going Wild–Funding for MapR and Concurrent, Support on Azure

By Ben Kepes

The world’s love affair with Hadoop seems to be continuing  apace. Both in a funding for startups way and a support from big vendors way. On the funding side, yesterday it was MapR, the Hadoop company pushing a couple of different Hadoop distributions that was announcing a $30M VC round,

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August 15, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Big Data–Over Hyped Buzzword or Enterprise Focus?

By Ben Kepes

Of all the myriad of terms that the tech industry throws around at the moment, none is as often subverted for marketing spin as “big data”. So much so that few people can actually agree on what big data is. For me, I’ll revert to Wikipedia and it’s definition which

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June 22, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Big Data Analytics–On Structured and Unstructured

By Ben Kepes

Analysis of unstructured data is the hot topic these days – organizations are lured by the promise of deriving huge incremental value by gaining insights from crunching vast pools of seemingly random numbers to determine patterns and trends. While visiting the incredible SuperNAP data center in Las Vegas, I was

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June 29, 2011 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Cloudera Goes Full Lifecycle Management for Hadoop

By Ben Kepes

Hadoop is gaining users as a way of running data-intensive distributed applications. I has been put to good use to help with the data issues faced by companies such as twitter, Facebook and eBay. Cloudera, one of the best known providers of Apache Hadoop-based software and services, is this morning

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