MicroStrategy is set to unveil an array of enhancements to its BI (business intelligence) software platform, covering areas such as visual data-exploration and... full story ![]()
Former Yahoo Chief Cloud Architect Todd Papaioannou said his difficulties building a consistent, stable Hadoop platform at Yahoo directly led him to found his startup Continuuity.
gigaom.com (1 month and 26 days ago)

In Part III of our look at all things Hadoop, we examine the trends driving Hadoop's future. At the end of the day, everything is pushing Hadoop toward being just generally faster and easier to consume.
gigaom.com (2 months and 12 days ago)

Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows, now in beta, brings Hadoop to Excel and SQL Server (and vice versa.)
gigaom.com (2 months and 22 days ago)
Open source is a great place for innovation. But it’s just the beginning. That’s Intel’s take on Apache Hadoop. It’s a solid ecosystem that can help organizations get value out of big data, but enterprises should continue to demand more from the platform.
gigaom.com (2 days ago)
Chip giant seeks to provide organizations with an open-source, hardware-accelerated, and secure foundation for big data analysis, pave the way to an 'Internet of Things.'
pcmag.com (2 months and 21 days ago)

A few years before we had a Structure:Data conference dedicated to big data — and, by proxy, Hadoop — GigaOM spotted Hadoop’s promise and began trying to spread the word about and advance the discussion around this groundbreaking technology. Now that Hadoop is 10 years old [...]
gigaom.com (2 months and 11 days ago)

In the first of our four-part multi-media series on Hadoop, the people who helped build Hadoop talk about its birth, its promise and the challenges in moving it from webscale to just large-scale.
gigaom.com (2 months and 15 days ago)
I noted in a previous blog post that Hadoop needed a number of enhancements to make it more acceptable to enterprise users. One of them was simplicity. Indeed, even some of the purveyors of Hadoop distributions privately admit that Hadoop, with its attendant add-ons (Pig, Hive, Squoop, and more) is a bear to install. An IT team can spend up to six months getting it working....
forbes.com (2 months and 20 days ago)
Entrepreneurs who build applications on top of Hadoop see lots of use cases, but the ecosystem needs to evolve further in order to support wider and more cost-effective implementations.
gigaom.com (1 month and 26 days ago)

IBM announced a new PureData appliance for Hadoop and technology for speeding up analytic databases. The announcements come at a good time, with data sets growing and enterprises hankering for easy and fast analysis capability.
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