If you are confused about Hewlett-Packard’s cloud plan of action, this week’s guest will lay it out for you. Bill Hilf, the…
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Cloudera CEO declares victory over big data competition
Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly doesn’t often mince words when it comes to describing his competition in the Hadoop space, or Cloudera’s position…
Read MoreMicrosoft’s machine learning guru on why data matters sooooo much
Not surprisingly, Joseph Sirosh, has big ambitions for his product portfolio at Microsoft which includes Azure ML, HDInsight and other tools. Chief among…
Read MoreCloudera claims more than $100M in revenue in 2014
Hadoop vendor Cloudera announced on Tuesday that the company’s “[p]reliminary unaudited total revenue surpassed $100 million” in 2014. That the company, which…
Read MoreCloudera acquires self-service data-modeling startup Xplain.io
Hadoop vendor Cloudera is moving closer to the business intelligence space by acquiring a startup called Xplain.io. The company’s software analyzes users’ offline…
Read MoreHortonworks and 3 large users launch a project to secure Hadoop
Hadoop vendor Hortonworks, along with customers Target, Merck and Aetna, and software vendor SAS, has started a new group designed to ensure…
Read MoreThe 5 stories that defined the big data market in 2014
There is no other way to put it: 2014 was a huge year for the big data market. It seems years of talk…
Read MoreWhy the Hortonworks IPO could be a bellwether for Hadoop
Hortonworks' IPO filing on Monday shows that Hadoop is still a resource- and risk-intensive business, but also suggests it's one that public market investors will be willing to back. It might also start the ball rolling for long-anticipated moves in Hadoop.…
Read MoreCloudera now lets you manage cloud instances just like the real thing
Cloudera has announced a new product called Director that will make it easier for customers to manage their Hadoop clusters on the Amazon Web Services cloud. It's likely the first of many moves Cloudera will make to expand its presence outside of customer data centers.…
Read MoreTeradata doubles down on Hadoop again, this time in the cloud and with Cloudera
Teradata and Cloudera have signed a deal that includes some technology integrations as well as joint sales and marketing efforts. Teradata is also launching its own Hadoop cloud service, which will be available by the year's end.…
Read MoreCloudera bought DataPad because data scientists need tooling, too
Cloudera has acquired a data-visualization startup called DataPad, the founding team of which specializes in data analysis using the Python programming language. As Hadoop competition heats up, Cloudera might be ramping up its Python tooling in order to attract more data scientists and developers.…
Read MoreVivint’s deal with Cloudera offers a small insight into big data in the smart home
Data is the gold that's luring businesses to the internet of things and connected home. Consumers benefit, but absent a conversation about rights and appropriate uses of data we may give up more than we realize.…
Read MoreCloudera: Impala’s it for interactive SQL on Hadoop; everything else will move to Spark
There was a lot of news about Spark's ascension in the big data ranks this week, as well as some speculation. According to Cloudera's Mike Olson, his company is widely embracing Spark -- including to run Hive -- but not in place of Impala.…
Read MoreMapR raises $110M to fuel its enterprise Hadoop push
MapR has raised $110 million, $80 million of which is equity financing, in order to fuel its growing Hadoop business in the face of better-known rivals Cloudera and Hortonworks. Like those companies, MapR says it has the winning strategy and aims to be a publc company.…
Read MoreDell to build in-memory Hadoop appliances with Cloudera and Intel
Dell, Cloudera and Intel are working together on an appliance designed to speed the performance of Hadoop environments by moving a lot…
Read MoreHadoop maturity summits
Last week's Hadoop Summit brought announcements that further galvanize Hadoop's versatility and mainstream status.…
Read MoreCloudera acquires big data encryption specialist Gazzang
Hadoop vendor Cloudera has acquired Gazzang, a startup specializing in encryption for Hadoop environments, as well as others next-generation data stores such as Cassandra and MongoDB.…
Read MoreThe data center demands of selling Hadoop have Cloudera eyeing the cloud
Big data vendor Cloudera is no Google when it comes to data center footprint, but the cost and complexity of its infrastructure are growing with each passing year. Cloudera VP of engineering Peter Cooper-Ellis explains how better data centers and cloud computing help ease the burden.…
Read MoreFor Microsoft Office for iPad users, it’s all about OneDrive now
The week in cloud: Microsoft stresses Azure's openness to outside products -- but that philosophy doesn't extend to Office for iPad's storage choices.…
Read MoreCloudera CEO: With more than half a billion in cash, we can do IPO right
Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly came on the Structure Show this week to talk about why the company entered into a deep partnership with Intel, just how much cash it raised and when it might go public.…
Read MoreCloudera puts a number on its recent fundraising: $900M, mostly from Intel
Hadoop pioneer Cloudera has said it closed on a $900 million round of financing that gives Intel an 18 percent stake in the company. Rumors had Intel's investment at around $100 million, but it's likely much more.…
Read MoreIntel jettisons its Hadoop distro and puts millions behind Cloudera
Cloudera and Intel have entered into an agreement that makes Intel Cloudera's largest strategic investor and makes Cloudera Intel's preferred partner for Hadoop distributions. It will forego its own distribution and start selling and engineering for Cloudera's software.…
Read MoreCloudera CEO: Going public is not an event, it’s a process
Having $300 million at your disposal means a company can go public. Or not.…
Read MoreCloudera reportedly raising ‘at least’ $200M, with Intel leading the new round
Hadoop pioneer Cloudera is reportedly raising "at least $200 million" from a group of investors that includes Hadoop competitor Intel. If true, it raises some interesting questions about how the two companies might decide to co-exist.…
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