The 3 most common ways data junkies are using Hadoop
Just a few weeks ago, Apache Hadoop 2.0 was declared generally available–a huge milestone for the Hadoop market as it unlocks the vision of interacting with stored data in unprecedented ways. Hadoop remains the typical underpinning technology of “Big Data,” ...
The secrets of designing and building big data apps
Software applications have traditionally been perceived as a unit of computation designed and used to solve a problem. Whether an application is a CRM tool that helps manage customer information or a complex supply-chain management system, the problem it solves ...
Big Data and the Role of Intuition
Many people have asked me over the years about whether intuition has a role in the analytics and data-driven organization. I have always reassured them that there are plenty of places where intuition is still relevant. For example, a hypothesis ...
A Quick Guide To Choosing The Right Way To Use Hadoop
By Dan Woods, The market for Hadoop and related products is one of the most active in all of enterprise software. I’ve developed a simple framework that can help quickly explain the differences in the way Hadoop distributions are created ...
7 Ways Big Data Could Revolutionize Our Lives
We know that big data is changing the way we live and work. It is changing societies and changing businesses. On this platform we have included many best practices that show concrete example of how this is happening. To illustrate ...
Top 10 big data stories of 2013
Big data. Anyone sick of it yet? Not the technology: the pulling together and cross-matching of disparate data on a massive scale is arguably producing more social, commercial and political change than any other innovation over the last couple of ...
HP’s Earth Insights deploys big data tech against eco threats
HP has turned its Vertica big data technology to the task of helping ecologists detect risks to threatened species.
The company announced HP Earth Insights on Tuesday, a joint project with non-governmental organisation Conservation International designed to speed up the analysis ...
Which Hadoop Distribution Is Right For You?
Selecting a Hadoop distribution can seem pretty daunting. But it all comes down to which platform best suits your Big Data needs.
The thought of evaluating whether a particular technology is right for your company can conjure up feelings of stress, ...
Yahoo SAMOA, Open Source Platform for Mining Big Data Streams
Yahoo SAMOA (Scalable Advanced Massive Online Analysis) is a framework for mining big data streams and applying distributed machine learning algorithms. You can think of SAMOA as Mahout for streaming.
SAMOA (Scalable Advanced Massive Online Analysis) is a framework for mining ...
Managing Multiple Resources in Hadoop 2 with YARN
An overview of Cloudera’s contributions to YARN that help support management of multiple resources, from multi-resource scheduling to node-level enforcement
As Apache Hadoop become ubiquitous, it is becoming more common for users to run diverse sets of workloads on Hadoop, and ...