The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreLast week, I wrote briefly about Apache HBase pushing out its 1.0 release. Subsequently, news of several more new releases of Big…
Read MoreAfter last week’s somewhat encyclopedic (and I mean that self-effacingly) Strata news roll-up, this week’s post focuses on just a couple of…
Read MoreThe Strata + Hadoop World Big Data confab starts up in San Jose, CA this morning, and a bunch of vendor announcements are…
Read MoreThere was a time, a little over two years ago, when SQL-on-Hadoop was about cracking open access to Hadoop data for those…
Read MoreThere was a time, a little over two years ago, when SQL-on-Hadoop was about cracking open access to Hadoop data for those…
Read MoreThe holiday season news drought in data and analytics is definitely over. A bunch of announcements from commercial vendors, and others from the…
Read MoreWhat does it mean to be a Big Data developer? Does it mean you’re a data analyst who knows how to code? …
Read MoreYou may recall that Cloudera and Hortonworks each acquired Hadoop security companies last year. Hortonworks acquired XA Secure and Cloudera acquired Gazzang. I covered the XA…
Read MoreThe trend toward self-service in business analytics has been good for the big data industry. But in order for the user-oriented paradigm to take…
Read MoreThe trend toward self-service in business analytics has been good for the big data industry. But in order for the user-oriented paradigm to take…
Read MoreThe year 2015 will be one in which data and analytics technologies become more standardized, more broadly adopted, and more successful.…
Read MoreThis past Friday, Hortonworks made good on its announced intention to present an initial public offering to the market. The shares were…
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