
Rise Of Big Data On Cloud
Growing up as an engineer and as a programmer I was reminded every step along the way that resources—computing as well as memory—are scarce. The programs were designed on these constraints. Then the cloud revolution happened and we told people not to worry about scarce computing. We saw rise of MapReduce, Hadoop, and countless other […]

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 […]

Riptano, Cloudera For Cassandra
Riptano , a new company launched recently can be considered Cloudera of Cassandra project. This company was started by two ex-Rackspace employees (disclaimer: Rackspace’s Email Division is a client of Diversity Analysis) to provide support services for Cassandra much like how Cloudera was started to offer support services for Apache Hadoop. When I wrote about […]

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 […]
More Than Enterprise Scale, It Is Science Scale – Cloudera And Hadoop Are Shaking The Marketplace
Cloudera, the company offering commercial support to Hadoop (our previous coverage here), received 6 Million dollars Series B funding from Greylock Partners and Accel Partners. Om Malik further points out to the potential of Hadoop beyond the Web 2.0 applications. From the analysis of point-of-sale data to genomics data, the opportunities for Hadoop are plentiful, […]
Open Source And Cloud Computing Series: Commercial Open Source Ecosystem Is Taking Off
When Open Source started getting traction in the enterprise world, we saw business models emerge on top of the Open Source philosophical platform. One of the most successful business models is the so called Redhat model where the software is released under an Open Source license and monetization is done by offering support for a […]

Cloudera – Redhat of Cloud Computing?
A group of Silicon Valley executives, Amr Awadallah (formerly with Yahoo), Christophe Bisciglia (ex-Googler), Jeff Hammerbacher (formerly from Facebook) and Mike Olson (an entrepreneur), have teamed up to launch CloudEra. There is not much info available at this point except the fact that the company will offer support for Apache Hadoop, a scalable, efficient and […]