Hadoop startup Karmasphere, which launched in 2010, has sold its intellectual property to credit-scoring specialist FICO. Karmasphere appears to have been struggling for adoption and funding, so selling its assets was not an unforeseen turn of events.…
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Meet the startups making machine learning an elementary affair
The choices are getting a lot better for businesses that want out-of-the-box functionality for machine learning, predictive analytics and general data science. Prepackaged software might not make your company into Google, but a step closer is a step in the right direction.…
Read MoreWant to ditch your data scientists? Here are 7 startups that can help
If we want to big data revolution to scale, then we need to make it as easy as Netscape made the web surfing experience. Here are 7 startups making that happen.…
Read MoreSurvey: Hadoop clusters not that big, not changing the world (yet)
The results of a recently released survey from Hadoop-focused startup Karmasphere show that while Hadoop use is picking up among mainstream (read "non-web") companies, it's still far from the all-powerful and ubiquitous insight engine its supporters (myself included) believe it will become.…
Read MoreIs 2013 the year Hadoop uptake turns into a ‘tornado’?
Karmasphere CEO Gail Ennis told me recently she thinks "2013 is going to be the year when we see [Hadoop adoption] go a lot more mainstream and [turn] into a tornado." I like the prediction, as much for its imagery as for its near-term certainty.…
Read MoreWhat it really means when someone says ‘Hadoop’
Hadoop features front and center in the discussion of how to implement a big data strategy, one of the biggest trends in IT. There’s just one problem that keeps cropping up: many people don’t seem to know exactly what it means when somebody says “Hadoop.”…
Read More6 reasons why 2012 could be the year of Hadoop
Hadoop gets plenty of attention from investors and the IT press, but it's very possible we haven't seen anything yet. All the action of the last year has just been setting the stage for what should be a big year.…
Read MoreSo much Hadoop in so many places
Save for Hortonworks' foray into the product space, none of today's myriad Hadoop announcements are particularly earth-shaking, but they're very meaningful when taken as a whole. They're part of a larger trend in which anyone with a data-driven business has a Hadoop story to tell customers.…
Read MoreHadoop app specialist Karmasphere scores $6M
Karmasphere, a Cupertino, Calif.-based startup focusing on helping analysts write better big data applications, has raised $6 million in a Series B round. That brings the announced VC investment in Hadoop to more than $30 million in the last 30 days.…
Read MoreKarmasphere pushes new big data workflow
Hadoop is all the rage in analytics, but it still isn't easy for mere mortals to utilize the big data framework. A handful of companies are trying to solve this problem, including Karmasphere with the latest version of its Analyst Big Data product.…
Read MoreData for doctors: Big data meets a big business
Forget the division between structured and unstructured data. For the benefits of the big data era to reach businesses bottom lines or to change behaviors, companies will have to figure out how to bring the results of Hadoop analytics to HR and middle managers.…
Read MoreAre companies addicted to Hadoop?
The size of Hadoop deployments appears to have tripled since October, according to statistics that Cloudera is sharing. If accurate, they help prove assumptions that Hadoop usage grows quickly once organizations wrap their heads around how it is used.…
Read MoreBattle on: MapR, Cloudera pimp their Hadoop products
The fight for Hadoop dominance is officially on. While Hortonworks is busy answering questions about its product strategy, Cloudera and MapR will demonstrate new versions of their distributions overflowing with bells and whistles. And there are several other competitive products lurking in the background.…
Read MoreAre Big Data Startups Eyeing the Enterprise Already?
Two popular big data startups, Karmasphere and 10gen, made management changes this week, which might signal that the companies' boards feel they're poised to make runs at the big time and need seasoned leadership to take them to the next level.…
Read MoreHadoop World: Cloudera Makes More Big Data Friends
Hadoop World is taking place today, and, indicative of the general momentum around Hadoop, there is plenty of news coming from the event. As one should expect, Cloudera is driving the action, but it brings vendors and service providers of all stripes into the mix.…
Read MoreSurvey: Hadoop is Great, but Challenges Remain
Commercial Hadoop startup Karmasphere today released the results of a survey of 102 Hadoop developers regarding adoption, use and future plans. The results provide some interesting insights into how Hadoop grows within organizations and underscore its status as an extremely valuable, but none-too-simple analytics tool.…
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