In the world of Data Warehousing, speed, cost and value are often of paramount importance. Consider the following: TDWI estimates it takes upwards of 8 weeks to add a column to a table The average cost of an integration project runs between $250K and $1M, according to Gartner Only 3 of 10 customers surveyed by…
Over the last eight years of Hadoop’s existence we have seen what can be described as “waves of adoption” – there are distinguishable groups of users who adopted Hadoop at similar times and under similar circumstances. Each wave of users adopting Hadoop into their data processing infrastructure faced also similar challenges and therefore were often…
Big Data success requires professionals who can prove their mastery with the tools and techniques of the Hadoop stack. However, experts predict a major shortage of advanced analytics skills over the next few years. At Cloudera, we’re drawing on our industry leadership and early corpus of real-world experience to address the Big Data talent gap…
Earlier this week we announced the general availability of the industry’s first enterprise data hub (EDH). Launched in conjunction with a realignment of our product packaging and the addition of some new capabilities, the EDH has emerged as the platform of choice for those organizations that are looking to do more than just storage and…
HBaseCon 2014, the third annual edition of the premier event for Apache HBase community (hosted by Cloudera), occurs on May 5, 2014, in San Francisco. In the interview below, Cloudera CTO Amr Awadallah tells the conference’s “origin story”. The first HBaseCon occurred in 2012. What was the reasoning behind Cloudera’s initial involvement?