Early Signs Of Big Data Going Mainstream
Today, Cloudera announced a new $40m funding round to scale their sales and marketing efforts and a partnership with NetApp where NetApp will resell Cloudera’s Hadoop as part of their solution portfolio. These both announcements are critical to where the cloud and Big Data are headed. Big Data going mainstream: Hadoop and MapReduce are not [...]
Hadoop Looms Big After The Hadoop Summit
Hadoop Summit 2011 was held this week at Santa Clara and it highlighted how Hadoop has matured in the past few years. Hadoop is an open source project under Apache Foundation which aims to solve the storage and processing of big data. Based on Google’s Map Reduce, Hadoop has emerged as a major platform in [...]
Cloudera Desktop Announced And More
Cloudera, the company that offers commercial support for Hadoop which is an open source implementation of mapreduce, announced the availability of Cloudera Desktop, at the Hadoop World Conference going on in New York City. Cloudera Desktop is a graphical front-end for managing and developing for Hadoop. It is available for download right now. Cloudera desktop [...]



