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Weekly Big Data Review: From HDP to Next Gen BI
Hortonworks became the center of attention this week after upgrading its Hadoop distribution with a YARN-based architecture that lets enterprises store and manage all of their data in one place. HDP 2.0 achieves this by providing support for stream processing and rapid ad hoc analysis via Hive 0.12, a faster and more feature-rich fork of ...
Internet of Things Review: Tablets Are All the Rage
It’s been an exciting week for mobile enthusiasts on both the Apple and Microsoft camps, but it was the former that stole the stage with the iPad Air. The fifth generation tablet sports a cutting edge 64-bit A7 processor that provide twice the performance of its predecessor and 72 times the graphical horsepower of the ...
Weekly Security Review: Aaron Swartz’s Legacy and the Cyber Grand Challenge
Before his untimely death in January, hacktivist Aaron Swartz was working on an open source dead-drop tool that would enable journalists to securely accept documents from whistleblowers without exposing their identities. Continuing his legacy, the Freedom of the Press Foundation has recently taken over the project in an effort to solve the technical issues that ...
DataStax Snags Former Fusion-io CFO
Apache Cassandra distributor DataStax announced today that it has appointed Dennis Wolf as chief financial officer. The Silicon Valley veteran joins the company from flash storage solutions maker Fusion-io, which posted a first-quarter loss of $27.9 million, or 28 cents a share on Wednesday. Wolf brings more than 30 years of experience to the company. ...
NetApp Making More Friends to Extend Channel Reach
Storage vendor NetApp is expanding in all directions with an aggressive partnering strategy that earned it two new alliances and a major channel victory in the past week alone. The most notable of these is the partnership with Verizon to make Data ONTAP available for the carrier’s cloud users. Data ONTAP is a storage operating ...
Hadoop Ready for Primetime? 4 Things Hortonworks Needs to Succeed
With this week’s release of HDP 2.0, Hortonworks is marrying Big Data and business analytics to make Hadoop more viable for the traditional enterprise. The latest version of the startup’s flagship distribution utilizes the YARN resource manager to let users store all of their data in one place for more convenient access and analysis. Hortonworks ...
Apple Taking a Page Out of Google’s Book to Grow in the Enterprise
Tim Cook’s Apple is playing it safe with an iterative approach to innovation, focusing on evolution as opposed to revolution. The company stuck to its guns yet again this year with a Retina-equipped follow-up to the iPad mini and a new variation of its full-sized tablet that boasts an array of significant improvements. More than ...
A Win for Predictive Analytics : Infer Doubles Customer Bookings Since April
Delivering on its April promise to investors, predictive analytics startup Infer revealed this week that it has doubled its customer bookings since exiting stealth mode. As a result, the company is now processing 200 percent more predictions for customers than six months ago. Established in 2010 by data scientist Vik Singh and former Googlers Yang ...
For Domino’s Pizza, Splunk is the Secret Sauce to Efficiency
Domino’s Pizza, the second largest pizza chain in the United States, is using Splunk to gain operational visibility across 10,300 stores in over 70 international markets. The company detailed its case study in a release that crossed the wire on Tuesday. The takeout giant’s Splunk journey is a familiar one. Its IT organization originally deployed the ...
SAS, Teradata Team on HDP to Deliver Integrated Analytics
In a move to help organizations consolidate their Big Data environments, analytics giant SAS and partner Teradata have updated their joint offering to support Hortonworks’ fast-growing Hadoop distribution. Dubbed Analytics Advantage Program with Hadoop, the platform marries Teradata’s SAS appliance and Unified Data Architecture, or UDA, with the latest release of the Hortonworks Data Distribution. ...