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This Week in Big Data: HortonWorks’ Major Updates, HANA and PureData
A few vendors announced notable big data developments this week. Hortonworks alone had two. On Thursday the big data start-up unveiled a new ODBC driver that allows users to integrate their existing BI applications with Hadoop. Hortonworks’ version of the open database connectivity API supports features support for Tableau, PowerPivot and other analytical apps, in ...
This Week in the Cloud: OpenStack, Analytics and More
This week had a few notable updates, including one from Rackspace. The cloud hosting provider introduced something called OpenStack Fundamentals, a certification course that’s based on material developed for internal use. The material has been around for a year or so, so Rackspace had a lot of time to polish it up before offering it ...
Infosys Stock Plummets After Failed Expections
Infosys, the second largest IT consultancy in the India, disappointed investors with weak financial performance and an unchanged outlook for the quarter ending in March. The company posted net profit of 23.69 billion rupees, about $450 million, which is 24 percent more than the 19.06 billion rupees reported in the second quarter of 2011. Analysts’ consensus ...
An Upbeat Uptick for India’s IT: Focus on Recovery, Big Data
India’s National Association of Software and Service Companies expects to see double-digit growth for the sector in the current fiscal year. NASSCOM forecasts a revenue increase somewhere between 11 and 14 percent for the period, down from the 16 percent that was reported for the Indian tech outsourcing market last year. It’s not all gloom ...
IBM PureSystems Gaining Tractions Among MSPs
The latest from IBM is that Altus IT and Torres Network, two fairly large managed service providers, have deployed its PureSystems in their data centers. The Big Blue says that these most recent wins reiterate a trend that has seen MSPs choose its appliances over other solutions, such Oracle’s rivaling Exa line-up of ‘engineered systems’. ...
Hortonworks Debuts New Drive for BI Integration
Big data startup Hortonworks is now offering users a way to integrate its Hadoop platform with the BI applications they’re running on top. Hortonworks Hive ODBC Driver 1.0 makes it possible to analyze and visualize data from Excel, Microstrategy, PowerPivot, Tableau and other platforms directly from within Hadoop. This functionality has the potential of saving data ...
What Congress’ Big Data Inquiry Means for Consumers
Senator Jay Rockefeller, Chairman of the Commerce Committee, has sent a letter to over a dozen major brokers as a part of a broader inquiry into the use of consumer data in certain key verticals. Chief analyst at Wikibon, Dave Vellante, discussed this latest Congressional update on the News Desk this week. Vellante explains that the ...
Virtualization is Winning: VCE Marks Efficiency Boost for Colt Technology
Colt Technology Services, an IT service provider not to be confused with the iconic firearms manufacturer, is publishing new data about its massive virtual desktop infrastructure at VMworld Europe held this week in Barcelona. Colt leverages Vblocks from VCE and Cisco UCS systems to support up to 20,000 virtual desktops. The firm runs the Atlantis ...
What Innovations Mark Hadoop’s Transition to the Enterprise? Cloudera Explains
Big data is here to stay and Hadoop has come to play a central role in this story, though the enterprise readiness of this open-source analytics platform remains a hotly debated topic. One company that’s had a front row seat to big data and Hadoop implementation is Cloudera, among the earliest to provide enterprise solutions for Hadoop. ...
HortonWorks’ New President Accelerates Analytics Momentum
Last year Yahoo spun off a sizable portion of its analytics team under a new name: Hortonworks. The startup has since expanded its services portfolio with the launch of the HortonWorks Data Platform, its very own Apache Hadoop distribution, and it’s not having a hard time finding new clients. This week the big data firm ...