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HP Unveils Autonomy/Vertica-based Big Data Analytics Platform
HP announced today a new Big Data Analytics platform based on a combination of Autonomy’s unstructured data analytics engine and Vertica’s fast-loading, real-time analytics database. HP describes the new platform as “a single processing layer for forming a conceptual, contextual and real-time understanding of all forms of data, both inside and outside an enterprise.” This ...
SAP Eyes Database Dominance with Pure In-Memory Approach
As if there was any doubt after the messaging onslaught at this year’s SAPPHIRE and TechEd conferences, a senior executive in SAP’s business analytics division tells Wikibon that the company is going all-in on in-memory storage architecture and not looking back. “We made a bet,” said SAP’s Steve Lucas, referring to the company’s initiative to ...
Apache ZooKeeper Gets Some New Tools
Apache ZooKeeper 3.4.0 was released last week and it includes a number of updates that should make it easier for admins to better corral growing Hadoop deployments. Version 3.4 includes native Windows version of C client, Kerberos client authentication support, and an improved REST interface, according to a blog post by Cloudera’s Patrick Hunt. Contributors ...
GE Announces New Software Practice with Big Data Focus
General Electric says it plans to hire 400 software architects and engineers to man a new Big Data “nerve center” opening next summer in California. The new practice will focus on developing software to help customers make better use of GE’s products in aviation, utilities, and healthcare, according to the company. Most of GE’s industrial ...
Hadoop Gets Another Vote of Confidence From Microsoft
It appears Hadoop has yet another fan: Microsoft. ZDNet is reporting that Microsoft is putting LINQ to HPC, its distributed runtime and associated programming model for unstructured data analysis at scale, on ice. Codenamed Dryad, LINQ to HPC was Microsoft’s proprietary Big Data framework meant to compete with open source Hadoop. The move comes a ...
The Stakes are High in the Hadoop Distribution Race
A few weeks back I wrote that the focus in the Hadoop community was shifting from the infrastructure layer – the plumbing, if you will – to the analytics and application layers. That premise was backed up last week at Hadoop World by a number of important industry players, including Cloudera’s Jeff Hammerbacher and Tresata’s ...
Strive for Tight Integration Between Hadoop, Complimentary Big Data Approaches
There was a ton of great content at Hadoop World 2011 this week, but one point that struck me was the number of vendors present that were not, strictly speaking, part of the core Hadoop ecosystem. They included Teradata Aster Data, Informatica, HP Vertica, Attivio and, inexplicably, Oracle. The main take-away on this point is ...
Hadoop World: Hadoop Ecosystem is Exploding, Says Cloudera’s Olson in Keynote
Mike Olson kicked off Hadoop World 2011 with a history lesson. Just two or three years ago, the majority of Hadoop contributions were made to the core distribution. Today. Nearly 70% of contributions are made to Hadoop sub-projects and other complimentary technologies. (Continuing live coverage of Hadoop World 2011 via #TheCUBE at siliconangle.tv) In short, ...
Hadoop, there it is: Here Comes Hortonworks
In what appears to be a change in direction, Hortonworks has released a completely open source Hadoop distribution based on Apache Hadoop that will compete head-on with Cloudera’s CDH3. The new distribution, called Hortonworks Data Platform, includes a new, open source management tool the company developed called Ambari and is currently available as a limited ...
Data Integration, Data Quality Crucial to Customer Service in the Big Data Era
Small, local banks usually can’t compete with the likes of Bank of America or JPMorgan Chase when it comes to breadth of products, number of ATM locations, name recognition or market-moving power. In order to attract and retain customers, local banks must deliver high-quality, personalized customer service to each and every customer. That’s the approach ...