Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR), the enterprise data cloud company, today announced that it has agreed to acquire certain assets of Arcadia Data, a provider of cloud-native AI-powered business intelligence and real-time analytics. Arcadia Data's architecture delivers faster and deeper insights from modern data platforms like cloud object stores, Apache Kafka and Apache Hadoop. Arcadia's … [Read more...] about Cloudera Agrees to Acquire Arcadia Data to Accelerate Time-to-Insight for Data Analytics
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MapR Chief Application Architect Examines Best Practices for Maximizing Data-Driven Applications
MapR® Technologies, Inc., the industry's leading data platform for AI and Analytics, announced today at Strata Data Conference the release of a new book, AI and Analytics in Production, written for a wide audience of C-level execs (CIO, CTO, CDO), business team leaders, architects, system administrators, data engineers and data scientists. Authored by Ted Dunning, PhD, board … [Read more...] about MapR Chief Application Architect Examines Best Practices for Maximizing Data-Driven Applications
Apache Software Foundation (#ASF) Announces #Apache #Hadoop v3.0.0
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced Apache® Hadoop® v3.0.0, the latest version of the Open Source software framework for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. "...today Hadoop is the only cost-sensible and scalable open source alternative to commercially available Big Data management packages. It also becomes an integral part of almost any commercially … [Read more...] about Apache Software Foundation (#ASF) Announces #Apache #Hadoop v3.0.0
Two More Hadoop Analytics Platforms Raise Capital
Arcadia Data, another California-based startup, takes on Hadoop to tackle such challenges as SQL queries, user friendliness and visualization. These are challenges that slow down Hadoop's adoption, say a recently released Hadoop market study. Still, the report Hadoop Market Forecast 2017-2022 is optimistic about Hadoop's future and forecasts fast growth in a couple of years. … [Read more...] about Two More Hadoop Analytics Platforms Raise Capital
IoT is coming and it will likely spur Hadoop’s case
About two month ago I had been attending Hadoop Summit 2015 in Brussels. Frank Cremer (Port of Rotterdam) and Mansour Raad from ESRI had delivered an interesting presentation on Hadoop's use to manage output of extensive network of radar and AIS stations: The Port of Rotterdam is one of the busiest ports in the world. Monitoring and managing the resulting ship traffic is the … [Read more...] about IoT is coming and it will likely spur Hadoop’s case
Teradata Backs up SQL-on-Hadoop Framework Presto
Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the big data analytics company, has just thrown its full weight behind Presto, the SQL-on-Hadoop framework. In its press release Teradata announced "a multi-year commitment to contribute to Presto’s open source development and provide the industry’s first commercial support. Based on a three-phase roadmap, Teradata’s contributions will be 100 percent … [Read more...] about Teradata Backs up SQL-on-Hadoop Framework Presto
U.S. Intelligence Community Invests in Big Data
In-Q-Tel, the venture arm of the U.S. intelligence community, has participated in the funding round of Platfora. Platfora, a startup focused on generating effortless insights from big data, has raised $5.7 million in Series A funding to expand and accelerate development of its intuitive and richly interactive BI and analytics platform for data stored in Hadoop. Hadoop lacks … [Read more...] about U.S. Intelligence Community Invests in Big Data