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Can Hadoop Be Simple Again?

In the beginning, Hadoop had two pieces: HDFS and MapReduce. Developers knew how to use them to build applications, and IT teams knew what it took to operate them. Fast forward to 2016, and developers have a cornucopia o Read more…

MapR Appoints New CEO, Preps for ‘Hypergrowth’

MapR Technologies today announced that Matt Mills will take over the CEO position for John Schroder, who will remain with the company he founded seven years ago as executive chairman. In a conversation with Datanami, Sch Read more…

Talend Set for IPO This Week

There's been chatter about which big data technology company will be the next to go public after Hortonworks' (NASDAQ: HDP) initial public offering of stock in December 2014. Would Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies ma Read more…

Women in Big Data: Does Gender Matter?

I've recently taken on a position as an executive in a technical role at a big data startup headquartered in the heart of Silicon Valley.  I see the growth of next-gen big data platforms as the most exciting and disrupt Read more…

How TransUnion Maximizes Data Science Tools and Talent

You may know TransUnion as one of the credit bureaus that controls the interest rate on your new loan. But in fact the company does much more, and has solutions around fraud detection, collections, and marketing, among o Read more…

8 Tips for Achieving ROI with Your Data Lake

Would you spend millions of dollars building a data lake if you knew you wouldn't get your money back? Of course not. But all too often, organizations embarking on big data projects don't do what it takes to achieve a re Read more…

MapR Unveils Spark-Only Distro

Big data practitioners who want to get started quickly with Apache Spark but don't want to mess around with Hadoop may be interested in new software that MapR Technologies announced today. MapR's new Apache Spark Dist Read more…

Trifacta Brings Partners Into Data Prep Fold

The market for self-service data preparation tools is having a golden moment in the sun, with analyst firms like Gartner deciding that it does, in fact, have legs to stand on its own. The health of that market is also wh Read more…

How Credit Card Companies Are Evolving with Big Data

As overseers of our digitized marketplaces, credit card companies have a bird's eye view of what we buy. If you want to know what American consumers are interested in, there's perhaps no better way that to examine their Read more…

Super Scalable SIEMs Set to Tackle Big Security Challenges

The huge volume of network data that organizations need to chew through is putting pressure on security incident and event management (SIEM) software products that use a traditional rules-based approach. That's opening t Read more…

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