When Hadoop was first introduced, its selling points were its scalability, its ability to process all types of data in high volume, and its great economics. While data processing speed was important, there were little demands for real-time performance in the world of batch processing. As the industry and the users of Hadoop mature, so…
By Sam Greenblatt, Vice President and Chief Technical Evangelist ESG Dell Big data does not necessarily mean big company. Customers large, small and everything in between are using big data to gain critical insights and make critical decisions about their businesses. And in the realm of big data, there is a need…a need for speed. Across social networking,…
Cloudera and Intel have recently joined forces to focus on a single converged Apache Hadoop-based platform – CDH. Security continues to be a top priority for the Hadoop teams from both organizations and Project Rhino is a focal point for their collaboration in the open source community. While Hadoop does provide several security mechanisms covering…
It’s a thrilling week for HP as we invade Las Vegas for our biggest customer event of the year: The 2014 HP Discover Conference, June 10-12. “Discover” just happens to be a fitting word for an exciting new solution we’re launching at this year’s event: The new HP Converged Infrastructure Reference Architecture on Cloudera’s Enterprise 5 with…
In March, Intel announced that the company would exit the big data analytics software market after investing resources and several years into development of its own Apache Hadoop* distribution. What may have come as an even bigger surprise was the substantial equity ($740 million) and intellectual property investment in Cloudera, provider of the most popular Hadoop* software version…