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Cloudera 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 MoreMeet Myriad, a new project for running Hadoop on Mesos
Hadoop vendor MapR and data center automation startup Mesosphere have created an open source technology called Myriad, which is supposed to make it…
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 MoreSQL-on-Hadoop tech Apache Drill is ready to use and part of MapR’s distro
MapR has integrated the Apache Drill SQL-on-Hadoop engine into its big data platform. MapR led the development of Drill, which is part of a larger movement within the company toward building a stronger open-source culture.…
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 MoreHadoop maturity summits
Last week's Hadoop Summit brought announcements that further galvanize Hadoop's versatility and mainstream status.…
Read MoreSpark is now part of MapR’s Hadoop distro, too
MapR is the latest Hadoop vendor to embrace Apache Spark, adding the entire Spark stack of technologies to its distribution. It's a smart move by MapR, but just more validation that Spark might be the data-processing framework of the future.…
Read MoreMapR now supports YARN, puts HP Vertica on top of Hadoop
MapR is continuing along its path to Hadoop glory with new support for the YARN resource manager and a direct integration with the HP Vertica analytic database. In such a competitive space, every little edge matters.…
Read MoreMaybe big data is the killer app for Google’s cloud
Hadoop is popular and so is cloud computing, so it comes as no surprise that a battle would break out to establish the best place for running Hadoop. Lately, Google has been scoring some victories on the user side.…
Read MoreIt’s everywhere! The day Hadoop took over the cloud
Rackspace is now doing Hadoop, Cloudera just announced a handful of partners -- Hadoop is everywhere in the cloud these days. Here's a quick breakdown of what cloud providers are offering which distributions of Hadoop as managed services.…
Read MoreCloudera CEO: We’re taking the high (profit) road in Hadoop
Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly says his company doesn't really think of its peers Hortonworks and MapR as competitors, deciding instead to focus its efforts on winning bigger and broader deals.…
Read MoreSavvis adds managed Hadoop to its enterprise cloud
IaaS? Check. PaaS? Check. Now big data? Check. Savvis fills in its cloud services portfolio with new big data services.…
Read MoreThe biggest opportunity in Hadoop is capitalizing on the community
Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR and others are battling to lock down market share for commercial Hadoop software, but they're inherently limited when it comes to innovation. Why not take advantage of the work already done by big Hadoop users like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn?…
Read MoreMapR boosts performance for its commercial HBase software
Hadoop startup MapR has released a new version of its commercial HBase database, called M7. According to a press release, “HBase applications…
Read MoreNow that Hadoop is growing up, security is growing more important
Engineers at Hadoop distribution vendors are hard at work on as they look to add enterprises to their customer lists.…
Read MoreBeen there, forked that: What the Unix-Linux schism can teach us about Hadoop’s future
Concerned about proprietary and expensive forks of Hadoop, T-Systems' Juergen Urbanski explains how to tell if you are buying an open version of Hadoop or something you might later regret.…
Read MoreMapR releases M7, its commercial HBase distro
MapR on Wednesday released its commercial version of HBase called M7, the first such product on the market, that the company claims is bigger, faster and better than the open source version.…
Read MoreWith Impala now GA, Cloudera’s CEO sizes up the SQL-on-Hadoop market
Cloudera's Impala engine for interactive SQL queries on Hadoop data is now generally available, and CEO Mike Olson gives his lay of the competitive landscape.…
Read MoreBig, open data: MapR on Github and Yelp’s dataset challenge
MapR is releasing open source code and partnering with Canonical on Ubuntu, while Netflix is releasing some data for for developers to play with. Sounds like a good day for openness.…
Read MoreIn battle for Hadoop, MapR raises $30M
Hadoop vendor is racking up customers and on Monday it announced a $30 million venture-capital investment that brings its total funding to $59 million since launching in 2011.…
Read MoreThis week’s 10 best data stories (so far)
There has been a lot of data news already this week -- some big, some interesting, and some both. Here's a collection of the stuff you shouldn't, or don't want to, miss.…
Read MoreCloudera who? Intel announces its own Hadoop distribution
Intel's getting into the open source software business with it's own version of Hadoop. It joins a host of startups as well as EMC Greenplum in building a distribution for big data.…
Read MoreBringing big data to bear on big security
Vendors from tiny startups to giants like RSA, IBM and Cisco are rushing to incorporate big data expertise to beef up IT security.…
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