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 […]
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 […]
Hadoop Summit: Appistry Targets HDFS Market
Appistry, the platform player based out of St. Louis, is positioning itself to target companies considering HDFS (See our previous coverage of Appistry here). Yesterday, Yahoo hosted Hadoop Summit 2010. Appistry made an announcement about some strategic alliances they have built with some of the important players in the Hadoop ecosystem. It is pretty clear […]
