Tag: Hortonworks
From Spiders to Elephants: The History of Hadoop
Have you ever wonder where this thing called Hadoop came from, or even why it's here? Marko Bonaci has wondered such things, too. In fact, he wondered about them so much that he decided to write a History of Hadoop chapt Read more…
Hortonworks Deals to Streamline Hadoop Deployments
Hortonworks today announced the acquisition of Sequence IQ, a Hungarian developer of cloud deployment automation tools for Hadoop. Hortonworks, which is hosting its Hadoop Summit Europe in Brussels this week, also shippe Read more…
Making Sense of the ODP—Where Does Hadoop Go From Here?
It was no coincidence that Hortonworks and Pivotal unveiled Open Data Platform last week at the start of Strata + Hadoop World, which is Cloudera's semi-annual parade to everything Hadoop. But now that the dust has settl Read more…
LinkedIn Spinoff Confluent to Extend Kafka
The LinkedIn team that built the Apache Kafka real-time messaging service has left to form a new company called Confluent. The startup said it would offer a "real-time data platform" built around Apache Kafka. Along w Read more…
Hortonworks Files for IPO, Will Trade Under ‘HDP’
Hortonworks today announced that it plans to go public on the NASDAQ Global Select Market using the ticker symbol HDP, the name of its flagship product, Hortonworks Data Platform. The Silicon Valley firm did not reveal h Read more…
Teradata Edges Closer To Hadoop
Teradata made a major advance into the Hadoop ecosystem today with a series of announcements, including a new Hadoop cloud service, a data lineage tracking tool for HDFS called Loom, and a new reseller agreement with Clo Read more…
HP Taps Hortonworks to Supply Hadoop for HAVEn
Hewlett-Packard and Hortonworks today announced a strategic partnership that will see the vendors work together around Hadoop. In exchange for HP's $50 million investment in Hortonworks, HP gets the right to distribute t Read more…
Playing Stadium Tycoon with HANA and Hadoop
In the video game Roller Coaster Tycoon, players would build and manage an amusement park while being able to see the thoughts of their patrons in real time as they walk through and experience the park. Through social media, Hadoop, and HANA, the software giant SAP says the same type of interaction can be created in the real world. Read more…
Yahoo! Spinning Continuous Computing with YARN
YARN was the big news this week, with the announcement that the Hadoop resource manager is finally hitting the streets as part of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) “Community Preview.” According to Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz, who spoke at Hadoop Summit this week, Yahoo! has been able to leverage YARN to transform the processing in their Hadoop cluster from simple, stodgy MapReduce, to a nimble micro-batch engine processing machine – a change which they refer to as “continuous computing.” Read more…
Hortonworks Previews Future After Massive Funding Haul
Fresh from the game changing announcement that they have received a $50 million dollar haul from new investors, Hortonworks is in full swagger as Hadoop Summit kicks off today. The company put more cards on the table this morning, revealing the launch of the “community preview” of the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.0, and a strategic partnership with Teradata that will culminate in a Hortonworks-based Hadoop appliance. Read more…
Hortonworks Levels Up With $50 Million Haul
Hortonworks CEO, Rob Bearden announced that the company has secured a new round of funding to the tune of $50 million dollars, giving the upstart Hadoop distro company a new level of legitimacy in the enterprise Hadoop wars. Read more…
The Art of Scheduling in Big Data Infrastructures Today
Arun Murthy, architect with Hortonworks, said recently that the Hadoop community wanted to “fundamentally re-architect Hadoop...in a way where multiple types of applications can operate efficiently and predictable within the same cluster”. The starting point to do this, he says, is YARN, which has the potential to “turn Hadoop from a single application system to a multi-application operating system”. Fritz Ferstl, CTO with Univa argues that such efforts may run the risk of reinventing the wheel. Read more…
YARN to Spin Hadoop into Big Data Operating System
Hadoop is about to see a fundamental reset in its base functionality, says Arun Murthy, architect with Hortonworks and the Apache Software Foundation, who says that SQL in Hadoop via YARN is a part of the core of this metamorphosis. Read more…
Hadoop Data Management Set to Fly with Falcon
Hadoop data management tools for the enterprise are on their way says a team of open source developers at Hortonworks and InMobi, who recently saw their project, dubbed Falcon, accepted as an Apache Software Foundation incubator project. Read more…
DDN Casts Hadoop with HPC Hook
Between the ingestion, storage, processing and distribution of large, multi-structured data volumes, there is bound to be complexity, especially when it’s happening within a Hadoop cluster. However, according to HPC storage company, Data Direct Networks (DDN), all it takes to remedy the hassles is a Hadoop appliance that... Read more…
Apache Hadoop 2.0.3-Alpha Released With Future Outlook
The next generation of the Apache Hadoop open-source software framework has been given an alpha release and set free in the wild, delivering the next major milestone for the Apache Hadoop community. Read more…
MapR Charts Hadoop’s Path to Europe
Cloudera moving offices into Europe and Hortonworks co-hosting the first European Hadoop Summit in March marks a recent uptick in interest for Hadoop in Europe. Not to be outdone, fellow distro vendor MapR bolstered their efforts to move into the European market. Read more…
Microsoft Taps on Open Source Window
Following the demise of its Dryad project, which sought to bring Hadoop-like capabilities to the Windows community, Microsoft branched out and joined forces with Hadoop distro vendor and Apache gatekeeper, Hortonworks. In an effort to give the open source community an open Windows access to Hadoop, they were... Read more…
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