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Reaction to Hortonworks-Cloudera Mega Merger
"I didn't see this coming." That was a common reaction to yesterday's news that Hortonworks and Cloudera are combining forces in a blockbuster $5.2-billion merger. Sentiment was mostly positive, especially among people w Read more…
Cloudera and Hortonworks to Merge in $5.2 Billion Deal
Cloudera and Hortonworks, the two leading companies backing Hadoop distributions and fierce head-to-head rivals, today made the unlikely announcement that they plan to merge, creating a single company under the Clouder Read more…
Cloud Looms Large at Strata, and So Does Kubernetes
While there was heavy cloud cover in New York this week, cloud computing could be seen lifting Strata Data Conference, where vendors scrambled to ensure their products can support cloud and on-premise environments simult Read more…
Five Things to Consider as Strata Kicks Off
Today marks the start of the fall Strata Data Conference in New York City, which has traditionally been the big data community's biggest show of the year. It's been a wild ride for the big data crowd in 2018, one that's Read more…
‘Open Hybrid’ Initiative Targets Big Data Workloads
Hortonworks, IBM and Red Hat today announced they're banding together to build a consistent hybrid computing architecture for big data workloads. Dubbed the Open Hybrid Architecture Initiative, the program pledges simpli Read more…
Sorting AI Hype from Reality
Several years ago, some wondered whether we had hit "peak Hadoop." In retrospect, we had. Now we're experiencing a similar phenomenon with the hype surrounding AI, and once again, some are wondering if it's sustainable, Read more…
Hortonworks Handily Beats Analyst Estimates
Hortonworks today announced the financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, and the numbers beat the projections of every financial analyst that covers the company, giving its stock a 12.5% lift in after-hour Read more…
Water Co. Exploring Use of ML to Detect Quality Issues
Everybody expects to have clean drinking water. But as the lead crises in Michigan has shown, that's not always the case. Now American Water, the largest publicly traded water company in the country, is actively research Read more…
How the Machine Learning Catalogs Stack Up
You can't do anything with data – let alone use it for machine learning – if you don't know where it is. In the age of big data, this is not a trivial matter. It is also the main driver that's propelling the rise of Read more…
Neustar Finds the ‘Last Mile’ for Hadoop Analytics
Like many companies in the marketing analytics business, Neustar uses Hadoop to store and process large amounts of highly granular data on behalf of its clients. In fact, the company has used Hadoop for over a decade, a Read more…