Monthly Archive: April 2017
Today is an important day in the life of Cloudera
Nearly nine years ago, Amr Awadallah, Christophe Bisciglia, Jeff Hammerbacher and I came together with a shared conviction: Data was going to change the world. The three of them had some authority on the topic. Christophe came from Google, where…
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Update on Apache Spot: Tremendous advancement in cybersecurity data analytics and event management capabilities
The trend of applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to the mission of cyber defense is one of the most promising activities in the cybersecurity community. The trend towards eliminating data stovepipes to allow analysts to work over all relevant…
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Cloudera Extends Reach into Cloud with Azure Data Lake
It’s easy to understand why customers are moving to the cloud. Unlike the promises of marginal TCO savings brought on by incremental increases in performance or high availability by the old guard database vendors, the notion of utility computing and…
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Cross-component Lineage for Apache Hadoop
Apache Hadoop® exists within a broader ecosystem of enterprise analytical packages. This includes ETL tools, ERP and CRM systems, enterprise data warehouses, data marts and others. Modern workloads flow from these various traditional analytical sources into Hadoop and then often back…
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Moving Streaming Analytics Out of the Data Center
This blog focuses on moving streaming analytics outside the confines of the traditional data center. Moving streaming analytics closer to where data originates can be accomplished by leveraging an enterprise grade data movement application, married with an extremely lightweight streaming…
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Hortonworks’ Customers in Europe Power the Future of Data
Dinah Washington sang “what a difference a day makes” and having lived in London for a year this month, I’m feeling that multiplied by 365! And what a year it has been…. I joined Hortonworks back in 2012 when the…
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RSA 2017: A Sea of Solutions needing Big Data
I decided to take a break from my Cybersecurity Architecture series and CISO’s View series to give my thoughts on this year’s RSA conference while things are still fresh. First off, I enjoyed meeting with old colleagues and many security people…
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Accelerating Time to Market with Hortonworks Data Cloud
With the introduction of the Hortonworks Data Cloud (HDCloud), deploying clusters and starting to process data has become an order of magnitude faster. When Apache Hadoop evolved from being an on premise solution to a cloud based solution, the time…
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Leaving St. Valentine Behind for Mr. Roboto, The Big Data of Big Dating
Hortonworks has achieved quite a bit of success with online dating. Personally, I haven’t just yet, but hey it warms my heart to think about all those that we’ve helped bring together. Valentine’s Day is upon us and so I…
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Can an Elephant Fly in the Cloud?
It is that time of year again, right before Christmas in Las Vegas, where nearly 30,000 technologists gather to see the latest in innovation around the Cloud. Hortonworks is honored to participate as an exhibitor for the first time. If you…
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