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Big Data App Start-up Incubator Signals Role-Reversal for SAP
For years SAP’s bread-and-butter has been developing application software to run on third-party databases, including archrival Oracle. With the advent of HANA, however, SAP finds itself in the unfamiliar role of soliciting outside developers to build applications for its own database platform. That’s what SAP has been up to since February when it began reaching ...
With YARN, Hadoop No Longer a One Trick Pony
Last week my colleague John Furrier reported that YARN, also known as Next-Generation MapReduce, was upgraded to a full-fledged Apache Hadoop sub-project. While YARN is still considered alpha-quality, the move is a good sign for Hadoop. Here’s why. Critics often cite Hadoop’s inability to process data with any method other than MapReduce as evidence that ...
SAP’s Services Revenue Up, HANA Sales Top $100 Million in Q2
SAP reported its strongest ever 2nd quarter performance this morning with net profits of €661 million, or nearly $800 million. That’s a 12% increase over 2011 Q2 results. Among the highlights, SAP’s services revenue was up 16% compared to last year, topping €2 billion. That’s an impressive feat considering the majority of SAP’s business is ...
Standing up for HDFS, Hadoop’s Latest Whipping Boy
The Hadoop Distributed File System, or HDFS, which is really the core of any Hadoop cluster, has been taking a lot of flak lately. Many of the criticisms focus on some of HDFS’s well-known drawbacks, including its (until recently) lack of High Availability, and questions concerning HDFS security and management capabilities. Put another way, critics ...
Self-Service, Virtualization Can Help State Governments Do More with Less
The Great Recession has technically been over for three years now, but organizations of all types are still in recovery mode. Among the hardest hit are state governments, whose tax coffers are languishing. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, “the Great Recession that started in 2007 caused the largest collapse in state ...
There’s No Excuse for Not Leveraging Big Data
In a recent survey by Oracle of 300 executives, nearly a third – 29% – of respondents graded their current Big Data management and analytic capabilities as D or F. Nearly all respondents – 93% – agreed with the statement that their organization was leaving revenue on the table by not doing a better job ...
Nodeable Shift Highlights Growing Interest in (and Need For) Streaming Big Data Analytics
Nodeable made what you might call a major shift in its business model today. The company, which began life as cloud monitoring service provider for systems administrators, debuted a streaming Big Data Analytics services that is based on open source Storm and can be applied to numerous use cases beyond application monitoring. The new cloud-based ...
Desire to Tap Outside Expertise and Sheer Necessity Driving Professional Services Engagements
Enterprises turn to third-party professional services providers for two reasons more than any others. One is due to a desire to tap service providers’ external expertise that the enterprise lacks internally. The other is good, old necessity. These were among the findings of a recent Wikibon survey, whose results were released this week, of a ...
Closing the Hadoop Skills Gap Requires A Two-Front Attack
We’re all familiar with the Hadoop skills gap by now, so I won’t delve into the details of why we’re facing this conundrum in this post. Rather, let’s focus on solutions to the problem. It’s human nature to see the world in black-and-white. In the Hadoop world, this means there is one camp that says ...
MapR Bringing Hadoop to New Google Compute Engine
No sooner did Google announce its Infrastructure-as-a-Service offering, Google Compute Engine, at Google I/O this morning, than MapR revealed it will offer its Hadoop distribution on-demand via the new Google cloud. The announcment with Google comes just two weeks after MapR inked a similar deal with Amazon to host M5 and M3, its enterprise and ...