hadoop - News, Features, and Slideshows

• HPE plus MapR: Too much Hadoop, not enough cloud

  Cloud killed the fortunes​ of the Hadoop trinity - Cloudera, Hortonworks and MapR - and that same cloud likely won’t rain success down on HPE.

• Click Me Maybe: Inside eHarmony's matchmaking machine

  ​When a user signs up to eHarmony they fill out a lengthy questionnaire about the type of person they are, their likes and dislikes, beliefs, values and preferences in potential partners.

• All ANZ staff encouraged to become 'their own little data scientist'

  ANZ bank's 48,000 global staff are each being encouraged to become "their own data scientist" and being provided with tools to draw value from the company's fast-growing data lake.

• Why big data will be a big deal for the new HP

  Big changes are afoot at HP as the company prepares for a split up this spring. Big data software is expected to be a pillar of the new Enterprise focused HP company.

• In Pictures: How 7 companies bring power to Hadoop Big Data applications

  Intel and Cloudera joined forces just a year ago to accelerate enterprise Hadoop adoption. Here’s how seven companies have taken advantage of new technology to drive Big Data.

• 10 Hot Hadoop Startups to Watch

  As data volumes grow, figuring out how to unlock value becomes vastly important. Hadoop enables the processing of large data sets in a distributed environment and has become almost synonymous with big data. Here are 10 startups with solutions for unlocking big data value.

• Agile Comes to Data Integration

  Informatica is aiming to ease the pain of data integration with a new platform designed to allow businesses to rapidly prototype and validate before sending projects to development.

• How many data scientists does the world really need?

  The buzz is all about Big Data and how best to use it to generate actionable intelligence. To do this, companies will need to hire loads of highly trained, highly paid data scientists -- or will they?

• 5 strategic tips for avoiding a big data bust

  Failed expectations, increased costs, unnecessary legal risks -- going blind into a big data project doesn’t pay

• Big Data success is all in the analysis

  IT executives are starting to realize that there's little value in big data without robust analytics systems that can crunch the numbers and give key decision makers (read: their bosses) easy-to-digest information. With so few real solutions on the market, though, this is easier said than done.

Whitepapers about hadoop

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  Three Ways to Get Started with Hadoop

  This business-oriented white paper explains three options for starting your Hadoop journey. This paper also outlines the benefits of Hadoop and highlights some of the many use cases for this new approach to managing, storing and processing big data.

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  Data warehouse optimization with Hadoop

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  Cloudera & Informatica unleash the power of Hadoop

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  Intel and Cloudera: Accelerating enterprise Big Data success