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AWS adds support for Apache Spark on EMR
The Apache Spark open-source distributed processing engine for Big Data workloads is coming to Amazon Web Services (AWS). The cloud giant has just updated its EMR (Elastic MapReduce) service to handle Spark applications, meaning enterprises can now use the popular processing engine without needing to build their own infrastructure first. Spark joins other applications in ...
Syncsort | Dell reference architecture to accelerate Hadoop ETL
Big Data integration software provider Syncsort Inc. is teaming up with Dell Inc. and Cloudera Inc. in a bid to make Hadoop easier for enterprises to get up and running. Syncsort and Dell have introduced a new reference architecture that will, among other things, help businesses improve operational efficiency, reduce costs and leverage advanced analytics ...
Cloudera hires Google exec to lead its Hadoop development team
Hadoop vendor Cloudera Inc. has made an interesting hire in the shape of Daniel Sturman, an 8-year Google exec who was most recently a VP of Engineering at the Internet giant. Sturman joined Cloudera as its new VP of Engineering on Monday, and according to a press release will “lead all development within the company, ...
SAP HANA expands its reach into Big Data analytics and the IoT
SAP SE has rolled out an updated version of its flagship HANA in-memory database and application platform this week, with the emphasis on Big Data analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT). Released yesterday, SAP said HANA service pack 10 brings more functionality to the edge of the network, an area that’s increasingly seeing more ...
Mesosphere sets Spark flying on its Data Center Operating System
Mesosphere Inc. is partnering with Typesafe Inc. to provide support for an instance of Apache Spark that can be run atop of the Mesosphere Data Center Operating System (DCOS) on the Amazon Web Services cloud. The integration makes it much easier to deploy Spark in-memory computing clusters in production environments, the company’s said. Matt Trifiro, ...
Google improves Sheet’s analytics, visualization features
Google is adding new visualization and analytical tools to its Sheets software to help business users to better understand the data on their spreadsheets. In its latest effort to bring Big Data analytics capabilities to the masses, Google has announced a new tool that allows users to preview formula results instantly, even as users are ...
Deutsche Telekom teams up with Huawei to target Amazon in Europe
Germany’s Deutsche Telekom is looking to muscle in on Amazon turf in Europe, where it’s ramping up its cloud business by expanding its partnership with China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The telecoms firm said that by linking with Huawei it would be able to double its business cloud revenues to $2 billion by 2018, becoming ...
Analyst report casts a shadow over Hortonworks
Few experts doubt the Hadoop market is an extremely promising one, but that doesn’t necessarily mean all of the major players in the space are going to make the grade. Despite the incessant “hype” around Hadoop, none of the major vendors have yet been able to turn a profit. Those vendors – Cloudera Inc., Hortonworks ...
Databricks updates Spark with support for R and Python 3
Databricks has announced a major new update to the popular data analytics cluster framework Apache Spark, adding support for the R statistical programming language in an effort to make life easier for data scientists. As well as support for Python 3, Apache Spark 1.4 allows R users to work directly on large datasets via the ...
Sungard banks on Google’s cloud to land massive SEC Big Data contract
Sungard Financial Systems is relying on Google’s cloud expertise in a bid to land a multi-million dollar contract from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The two firms are working together to build a prototype cloud computing system that can store six year’s worth of financial trading data, as dictated by U.S. law. Sungard is ...