Latest Apache Hadoop Stories

Bright's cloud management solution cited for "exceptional innovation in technologies used by life sciences professionals" SAN JOSE, Calif., March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Bright Computing announced that Bright Cluster Manager has been named a "Best in Show" finalist for the upcoming Bio-IT World Conference in Boston. The award recognizes exceptional innovation in technologies for life sciences professionals. Bright Cluster Manager enables scientists to easily extend their...

Industry veteran Charlie Di Bona joins board of directors LOS ANGELES, March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- FatCloud, the developer of a NoSQL database for Windows users called FatDB, today announced that Charlie Di Bona, most recently general manager of strategy and M&A at Microsoft, has joined the FatCloud board of directors. "From his work at Microsoft, Charlie brings years of valuable industry experience to our board," said Ian Miller, CEO at FatCloud. "We look forward to...

Research and Markets announces the addition of "Global Hadoop Market 2012-2016" to its catalogue. Dublin, Ireland (PRWEB) March 20, 2013 The Global Hadoop market is forecast to grow at a CAGR of 55.63 percent over the period 2012-2016. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the demand for big data analytics. The Global Hadoop market has also been witnessing the emergence of hadoop-as-a-service (HDaaS) solutions. However, the lack of trained professionals...

Bright reduces cost and operational complexity inherent in cluster management SAN JOSE, Calif., March 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Bright Computing announced that DigitalOptics Corporation is using Bright Cluster Manager® for its ever-expanding product development system. DigitalOptics develops and sells software to enable high-quality image capture for small form-factor cameras and mobile devices, as well as a host of optically related technologies. The company chose Bright to...

FARMINGTON, Conn., March 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Big Data represents more than just a collection of data sets that form a large quantity of data. Big Data also represents a big business opportunity across many industry verticals. But processing big data using traditional applications is another story. Enter Hadoop. Apache Hadoop is open source software that makes possible the distributed processing of large data sets across commodity server clusters. According to analysts at...

Alteryx offers customers real-time query management IRVINE, Calif., March 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Alteryx, Inc., the leading provider of Strategic Analytics, today announced it will support Cloudera Impala(TM), as well as Hive 2 to bring faster, more efficient access to Big Data for today's Data Artisans and line-of-business analysts. "At Alteryx, we help businesses use Big Data to help make better decisions. The ability to perform real-time query management magnifies the impact...

Data science lab functionality delivered with enhanced capability; a principal aspect of the "logical data warehouse" GRAPEVINE, Texas, March 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Kognitio, driving the convergence of Big Data, in-memory analytics and cloud computing, today announced the Kognitio Analytical Platform enables new fully parallel not-only-SQL (NoSQL) capabilities, most notably the R language for statistical computing and graphics. The announcement came at the Gartner Business...

Open Source Enterprise Search Leader Enables Businesses to Quickly Uncover Insights Hidden within NoSQL Semi-structured Data REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With the rise of big data has come the development of modern technologies capable of storing massive and growing amounts of multi-structured data. Hadoop and, increasingly, NoSQL databases, have emerged as widely adopted platforms for wrangling the semi-structured nature of big data into contained and...

The Big Data Group and SiSense analyze Venture Capital data and make findings freely available SAN FRANCISCO, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A new analysis, published by The Big Data Group [http://thebigdatagroup.com ] and powered by SiSense's Prism [http://www.sisense.com ] technology, unveils venture capital trends that challenge common beliefs. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130314/601513 ) "The data points to a Series B crunch, rather than a...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Hadapt, the only data analytics platform natively integrating SQL with Apache Hadoop, has named Jit Saxena to its Board of Directors. Saxena was co-founder, CEO, and Chairman of Netezza, which pioneered the analytic database appliance and developed technology for complex analytics on large, diverse data volumes. Jit led Netezza from inception until January 2009, then served as Chairman until its acquisition by IBM in 2010 for...