GoGrid simplifies moving to big data”Enterprises are eager to evaluate and implement the latest Big Data solutions, but until now, they haven’t had the resources to do so quickly and easily,” says GoGrid CEO John Keagy. “GoGrid’s new 1-Button Deploy solution, combined with our Open Data Services platform, offers companies immediate access to the most advanced technologies on […]
It’s been an exciting month for the Big Data ecosystem, with Cloudera repackaging its portfolio in an effort to make Hadoop more accessible to organizations of different sizes. Two emerging players also made headlines with new solutions for developing analytical applications.Announced on Monday, the Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub combines the vendor’s open source distribution with a set of “advanced components” […]
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 […]
Data At Work profiles data scientists working at the cutting edge of big data.
Konstantin Gredeskoul knows what you want.
He’s the CTO of Wanelo, one of the online-shopping startups that’s pioneering the Visual Web. It’s a wicked mixture of Pinterest, Tumblr, Twitter and Instagram with a simple twist—everything you see on Wanelo is for sale online. Its more than 10 million […]
Despite the deafening buzz around hyperscale and OpenStack, the Big Data ecosystem continued along on its path of growth this week, with Altiscale pulling the curtains back on a hosted platform built from the ground up to run Hadoop.The newly launched Altiscale Data Cloud is designed specifically for organizations that lack the technical expertise of their web-scale peers but face […]
Google Compute Engine VMs provide a fast and reliable way to run Apache Hadoop. Today, we’re making it easier to run Hadoop on Google Cloud Platform with the Preview release of the Google Cloud Storage connector for Hadoop that lets you focus on your data processing logic instead of on managing a cluster and file system.Diagram of Hadoop on Google […]
ReadWriteReflect offers a look back at major technology trends, products and companies of the past year.
Thank the U.S. National Security Agency for bringing Big Data onto the national stage. The agency’s questionable use of data mining and analysis in the name of national security raised Main Street’s awareness of Big Data like never before.
Making sense of a wellspring of unstructured […]
Last year, I made several predictions about storage and big data – including one about the mad dash for software-defined storage (SDS). Well that’s certainly turned out to be true, with literally dozens of new products hitting the market this year with various attributes of software-defined storage! VMware also made some big news in this space with the launch of VSAN […]
The data analytics market is starting to boom. Hadoop distributions from big data companies like Cloudera have matured and are becoming more useful as they allow for better ways to perform real-time data processing by using cheap commodity hardware in clusters to spread data and then retrieve it for analysis. Customers are building data hubs that use Hadoop with data analytics on […]
Jeff Magnusson, manager of Data Platform Architecture at Netflix, gave a presentation at QCon SF 2013 Conference about their Data Platform as a Service. Following up to this presentation, we will try to further explain how the technology stack lies and how it helps Netflix to tackle important business decisions.Netflix has more than 30 million subscribers worldwide. Every user provides […]
