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]]>SAN FRANCISCO — The Hadoop open-source big data software is great at predicting things, and the more data it has to work with, the better the predictions, Charles Zedlewski, Cloudera’s vice president of products, said today at VentureBeat’s DataBeat conference.It follows that the industries that rely the most on the ability to predict will be the first to […]

New Training: Design and Build Big Data Applications | Cloudera …

Cloudera’s new “Designing and Building Big Data Applications” is a great springboard for writing apps for an enterprise data hub.Cloudera’s vision of an enterprise data hub as a central, scalable repository for all your data is changing the notion of data warehousing. The best way to gain value from all of your data is by bringing more workloads to where […]

Big Data News: Hortonworks, MapR, SAS | Data Center Knowledge

Hortonworks innovates the latest open enterprise Hadoop with release 2.1 of its Hortonworks Data Platform, MapR expands big data search with Elasticsearch, and SAS updates its Master Data Management and SAS Federation Server software.Hortonworks launches HDP 2.1.  Hortonworks announced the availability of  its open enterprise Hadoop platform Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.1.  HDP 2.1 delivers required enterprise functionality for data management, data access, data […]

More headroom for data manipulation, make big data analytics …

A recent Intel survey found that 82 percent of CIOs agree that big data solutions would improve business. Big data analytics is a top priority for businesses that want to tap into the hidden potential of their big data. Now they can. Intel partnered with several ISVs to ensure that data-analytics solutions fully harness the scalability, performance and reliability of the […]

Platfora, a big data analytics company, raises $38 million – Fortune …

CEO Ben Werther asks: Who needs a gut feeling in business when you’ve got the facts?Platfora says it can analyze all of a company’s data to help executives make better decisions.FORTUNE — The big data startup Platfora announced on Wednesday that it raised $38 million in a series C round led by Tenaya Capital.The round also included Citi Ventures, Cisco, […]

How WANdisco enables Big Data in geographically distributed …

There’s a lot of excitement around Hadoop, but at present only a portion of operational clusters are in production, due primarily to a lack of enterprise features such as disaster recovery and continuous availability. WANdisco chief marketing officer Jim Campigli and CTO Jagane Sundar stopped by theCUBE during SiliconANGLE’s BigDataSV meetup to discuss how their firm is helping to change […]

Big Data apps + cloud steal the spotlight : Strata day 2 | #BigDataSV …

The O’Reilly Strata Conference in Santa Clara is abuzz with the promise of making analytics power more accessible than ever before through new applications of Big Data. Tresata, the brainchild of former Bank of America data science chief and theCUBE regular Abhishek Mehta, is leading the way with a new software solution that runs on Apache Spark.NET 1.0 is one […]

Consumable Big Data : Cloudera repackages + adds Spark support …

Cloudera this week delivered on its October promise to provide a centralized enterprise analytics platform with a major portfolio overhaul that introduces three new offerings and support for the fast-growing Apache Spark project. Hailed as the next big thing in Big Data by SiliconANGLE founding CEO John Furrier, the framework executes queries up to 100 times faster than MapReduce and […]

SiQueries – Cameroonian Big Data startup to solve Africa's SME BI …

BIG DATA is coming at us at the speed of light in petabytes, exabytes, zettabytes, very soon in yottabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes). The amount of data that is being generated is exploding like never before. And within that data lies valuable insights, new ideas that will could transform and solve business problems and provide new business opportunities.The potential of big Data […]