In four years in NYC covering the Hadoop ecosystem I haven’t seen this much action where the stakes are at an all time high.   In NYC this week for #BigDataNYC event, SiliconANGLE has teamed with @theCUBE and is live on the ground breaking news, launching startups, and analyzing the signal from the noise.

What’s interesting is that there are two kinds of companies here at #BigDataNYC creators and commoditizers.  Rarely do you see a company that can do both – I am still watching for one.

Lots of conversations around data science, predictive analytics, and integration into applications.   Three key areas developing fast:  Developers and technology, Business stakeholders, and Startups and VCs.  All fighting for the killer user experience with technology to generate business outcomes.

Finally, great to see the Cloudera-Hortonworks conversation come to an end, as Cloudera has publicly acknowledged that they are no longer competing with Hortonworks.

Here are the top trending stories according to our monitoring program CrowdSpots.

Top trending news from Big Data Week

 
MapR Wires Security Into Hadoop

What keeps CIO’s up at night? The security of their data. And in the land of big data there are all kinds of dangers like user impersonation, rogue daemons, malicious remote procedure calls and more, according to MapR Technologies, a provider of Hadoop technology. This is a huge hurdle that suppliers of enterprise-grade Hadoop have to overcome to get potential customers started on big data projects — and a problem MapR is addressing with a new solution it announced today.

SiSense ‘Breaks the Rules of Physics’ at Big Data Conference

A new big data solution promises to do more than help businesses analyze massive amounts information. It’s actually “breaking the laws of physics,” said Eldad Farkash, co-founder and chief technology officer at SiSense. SiSense, a three-year-old developer of big data analytics software, announced patent-pending technology at the O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World 2013 conference in New York City this morning.

Announcing Windows Azure HDInsight: Where big data meets the cloud 

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Microsoft Officially Releases Its Hadoop Distro For The Cloud

Microsoft has a dream — Big Data democratized through easy to use tools and a unified data platform. Quentin Clark, Microsoft’s corporate vice president, will be at Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2013 in New York City tomorrow to talk about the company’s vision. In the meantime, we’ll give you a sneak peak at the forthcoming news. We hope to have even more news to share later today or first thing tomorrow, even before Clark’s speech.

Cloudera, Partners Deliver Lightning Speed and Cloud to Hadoop

Cloudera isn’t into chasing Hadoop tails. “We have consistently led the market,” said Matt Brandwein, the company’s director of product marketing.He may have an argument, given that Cloudera’s Chief Architect, Doug Cutting, is credited with the creation of Hadoop … that the company introduced Cloudera Search, the first fully integrated search engine for interactive exploration of data stored in the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and Apache HBase

EMC Isilon: Hadooping With Us Is Free

Say you were a contestant on Jeopardy, and the answer Alex Trebek read was “EMC, Hadoop.” Chances are the question you’d buzz-in with would be “What is Pivotal?” — referring to the company EMC spun-off less than a year ago. I suspect EMC would rather not have it this way. After all, big data is a huge component of the company’s strategy, and its Isilon division provides its own offering for deploying Hadoop and analytics.

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