In the past years, big data has revolutionized the way much of our connecting, engaging, working and responding is done. Big data has also captured the attention and imagination of everyone, in its impact and potential. It is only natural that when an international event with major consequences occurs, questions arise about Big Data. Is…
Category Archives: Open Source Software
Apache Hadoop at 10
Categories: Open Source Software
2016 marks the 10th Anniversary of Hadoop. This birthday provides us an opportunity to celebrate, and also to reflect on how we got here and where we are going. Hadoop has come to symbolize big data, itself central to this century’s industrial revolution: the digital transformation of business. Ten years ago, digital business was limited…
Q&A With Cloudera: Big Data Isn’t New—How You Use It Is
Thanks to MeriTalk for featuring this Q&A on their blog and allowing us to syndicate it here. By Dan Verton and Diana Manos, MeriTalk Advancements in big data and analytics have given agencies an unprecedented ability to leverage information to drive actionable insight, to understand constituent needs, and to provide personalized services─from real-time traffic and weather updates,…
Cloudera Submitting Impala and Kudu to the Apache Incubator
Categories: Open Source Software
Almost 10 years ago I helped found Hadoop at Apache. Since then the project has seen tremendous success, spawning an ecosystem of over 20 projects around it. Institutions throughout the world use Apache Hadoop and related projects to better understand their customers, markets and products. Hadoop has been central to the ongoing shift by enterprises…
Strata+Hadoop World New York 2015
Well, that was a great conference! The 2015 edition of Strata+Hadoop World NY is behind us with record attendance (6,300 registrants!), tons of great sessions, a really interesting array of keynotes and a ton of buzz all around. With Strata+Hadoop World coming up in Singapore (Dec 1-3), I think that in 2015 over 12,000 people…