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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…

Deep Learning Is Great, But Use Cases Remain Narrow

Deep learning is all the rage these days, and is driving a surge in interest around artificial intelligence. However, despite the advantages that deep neural networks can bring for certain applications, the actual use ca Read more…

Mike Olson on Zoo Animals, Object Stores, and the Future of Cloudera

During last week's Strata Data Conference, Datanami sat down to talk with Cloudera Chief Strategy Officer Mike Olson to talk about the state of big data, and where Cloudera offerings are headed next. Here's a rehash of t Read more…

Cloudera Pivots from Zoo Animals to Data Warehousing

As an amalgamation of various open source projects, Hadoop has always been a little wild, which kept followers on the cutting edge, for better and for worse. With today's launch of Cloudera Data Warehouse, Cloudera is ta Read more…

Universities Get Creative with Data Science Education

Good luck getting into Professor Yoav Freund's big data analytics and Spark class at the University of California, San Diego this fall. "There's always a very long waiting list to get in," he says. But thanks to a new pa Read more…

Cloudera’s Vision for Cloud Coming Into Focus

Cloudera today unveiled a host of new cloud-based offerings -- including Cloudera Altus Shared Data Experience (SDX), a cloud-based machine learning offering, and a cloud-based SQL data warehouse offering -- that get it Read more…

Hadoop 3.0 Likely to Arrive Before Christmas

It's looking like big data developers will get an early holiday present as work on Hadoop version 3.0 nears completion. And while Hadoop 3.0 brings compelling new features, including a 50% increase in capacity and upward Read more…

Cloudera Eyes Uniform Data Experience for All

In an ideal world, your compute shifts seamlessly among on-premise, cloud, and hybrid deployment models, and your BI apps have access to the same data as your machine learning and streaming apps. In the real world, howev Read more…

What Fast Forward Labs Brings Cloudera

During the big data land grab of 2014, everybody seemed to have become a data scientist, practically overnight. Despite the circus-like atmosphere, Hilary Mason and her new applied data analytics firm, Fast Forward Lab, Read more…

Cloudera Shares Tumble in First Quarterly Report

In its first quarterly report as a public company, Cloudera got a taste of what rival Hortonworks has been feeling when a billing miss sent its stock tumbling 15%. The company, which debuted on the NYSE under the symb Read more…

Cloudera Unveils Altus to Simplify Hadoop in the Cloud

Running Hadoop, whether on-premise or in the cloud, is neither simple nor easy. Administrators with specialized skills are needed to configure, manage, and maintain the clusters for their clients, who are data scientists Read more…

Committers Talk Hadoop 3 at Apache Big Data

The upcoming delivery of Apache Hadoop 3 later this year will bring big changes to how customers store and process data on clusters. Here at the annual Apache Big Data show in Miami, Florida, a pair of Hadoop project com Read more…

Hadoop at Strata: Not Exactly ‘Failure,’ But It Is Complicated

Has Hadoop failed to deliver the goods? That was a question on the minds of Strata + Hadoop World attendees last week, with opinions expressed both pro and con. Regardless of your stance on that question, it's clear that Read more…

Cloudera Gives Data Scientists a New Workbench

Data scientists will get the flexibility of a data science notebook with the security and governance of a locked-down Hadoop cluster through the Data Science Workbench, a new Web-based product unveiled by Cloudera today Read more…

How PRGX Is Making Its AS/400-to-Hadoop Migration Work

Many companies are using big data technologies to build new applications that can take advantage of emerging data streams, like sensor data or social media. It's not often you see established back-office applications bei Read more…

What Cloudera Did At Strata + Hadoop World This Week

This week's Strata + Hadoop World conference in New York City was expected to draw more than 7,000 attendees, making it biggest big data conference on the planet. It's also a showcase for Cloudera, which is the main spon Read more…

DataRobot Looks to Cut Data Science Backlog

The data science automation specialist DataRobot Inc. is gaining traction in the big data market for its machine-learning application as new investors like Intel Capital fund its expanding operations. Boston-based Dat Read more…

Why ONI May Be Our Best Hope for Cyber Security Now

Huge volume of network data has made it all but impossible for the good guys to detect new security threats, which has created space for the bad guys to operate. But thanks to a new Apache big data project called Open Ne Read more…

Can Big Data Deliver on the Huge Expectations of Precision Medicine?

Big data can do a lot of things. But can it allow doctors to create drugs that are tailor-made to your genes, reduce the cost of healthcare for a billion people, and let us all live to 150? Only time will tell, but there Read more…

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