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Hadoop Was Hard to Find at Strata This Week

It's been barely six months since the word "Hadoop" was removed from the name of the world's biggest big-data trade show, and at this week's Strata Data Conference in New York City, Hadoop all but disappeared. Yet key pa Read more…

MapR-DB Gets Secondary Indexes to Drive Operational Analytics

The ever-shrinking window of opportunity to act upon fresh data arriving from the world is forcing application developers to get more creative in how they analyze that data. Right there with them is MapR, which today at Read more…

Big Data Analytics Flashes a ‘Red Alert’ on Human Trafficking in India

The statistics are terrifying: Every three minutes, a young Indian girl is abducted into sex slavery --- often with the consent of her parents, as horrible as that sounds. Now, with the help of Australian analytics firm Read more…

Dremio Emerges from Stealth with Multi-Threat Middleware

If your business analysts are struggling to connect, prepare, and query data from multiple sources in a timely and cost effective manner, you might be interested in learning about Dremio, a new open source software compa Read more…

MongoDB Pivots to Analytics

MongoDB wasn't originally designed to power advanced analytics. But the frustration that people have with Hadoop data lakes and the desire to get real-time answers from the database driving their applications is leading Read more…

MapR Rebrands Around Converged Data Fabric

MapR Technologies today announced a major rebranding and repositioning of the data storage layer of its converged data platform. MapR-XD, as the data store is now known, provides the mechanism for customers to build a un 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…

MapR Extends Its Platform to the Edge

MapR Technologies today unveiled MapR Edge, an extension of its converged data platform that lets customers install MapR nodes practically anywhere they want. The new offering runs on small portable PCs like the Intel Read more…

Fully Hydrate Your Lake in 8 Weeks or Less, Zaloni Says

Zaloni today rolled out Data Lake in a Box, a soup-to-nuts offering for getting a fully governed Hadoop cluster up and running in eight weeks or less. The offering includes Hadoop software, data management middleware, an Read more…

Arcadia Upgrades Visual Analytics Platform

The latest version of Arcadia Data's enterprise platform sharpens the visual analytics software vendor's focus on generating data-driven applications with the long-term goal of making Hadoop and data lakes more accessibl Read more…