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• 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.

• Pentaho adds orchestration for Apache Spark jobs

  In the past several years, Pentaho Labs, the research arm of business analytics specialist Pentaho, set out to map the various big data use cases organizations were putting into production as part of an effort to provide big data blueprints, a big data stack if you will.

• Solving skills crisis starts at preschool: Dr Goodnight

  SAS chief, Dr Jim Goodnight, discusses what people are doing wrong with Hadoop, and why paying some teachers more money and improving education for preschoolers from low income families could help with the skills crisis.

• DataTorrent grabs $15M in funding to help make sense of big data -- fast

  <a href="http://www.datatorrent.com">DataTorrent</a>, which claims its software can process billions of events per second in Hadoop clusters, has received $15 million in Series B funding.

• Tackling big data challenges with Hadoop

  Big data and analytics sounds nice in theory but in practice it can be no mean feat. This partly due to limitations in technology and challenges in storage costs and disparate systems, said Eva Andreasson, pioneer of deterministic garbage collection and product manager at Cloudera.

• Hadoop platform, apps represent $1 trillion opportunity

  Over the past few years, Hadoop and big data have exploded onto the tech landscape, garnering attention on par with cloud and mobile. But that may all be about to change, says Mike Olson, co-founder, chairman and CSO of Hadoop distribution vendor Cloudera.

• Hortonworks Boosts Support for Enterprise Needs in HDP 2.2

  Hadoop specialist Hortonworks today announced that the newest version of its Hadoop distribution, Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.2, will become generally available in November.

• Hadoop distributor MapR gets $110M from Google

  MapR, which distributes a commercial software platform based off the Apache Hadoop big data management open source project, has secured a $110 million funding round led by Google.

• Hortonworks Adds New Enterprise Features to Hadoop Distribution

  With the release of the Hortonworks Data Platform 2.1 version of its Hadoop distribution, Hortonworks is packing in new enterprise features, including data access, data governance, data management, security and operations.

• Big data funding spree continues

  Venture capital firms continue to funnel big sums of money to big data startups. Hadoop player Cloudera announced $160 million in new financing, and analytics startup Platfora raised $38 million.

• Red Hat and Hortonworks Expand Strategic Big Data Alliance

  The two partners are working to make it easier than ever to bring Hadoop into the enterprise with an open hybrid cloud model and improved customer support collaboration.