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Thursday, 23rd May 2013

Hadoop: What It Is And How It Works

Hadoop: What It Is And How It Works

You can't have a conversation about Big Data for very long without talking about Hadoop. But what is Hadoop, and what makes it so important?

Enterprise Brian Proffitt comments

Friday, 10th May 2013

Hadoop Adoption Accelerates, But Not For Data Analytics

Hadoop Adoption Accelerates, But Not For Data Analytics

While Hadoop vendors like to point to the technology's capabilities in Big Data analytics, the reality is that today's Hadoop adoption is almost entirely low-cost data storage and ETL. Is this a bad thing?

Enterprise Matt Asay comments

Monday, 29th April 2013

The Rising Costs Of Misunderstanding Big Data

The Rising Costs Of Misunderstanding Big Data

The bigger our data sets, the harder it becomes to sift through them to find objective truth, and the higher the costs of getting it wrong. By lowering the bar to data science, open-source tools like Hadoop have actually increased our ability to misread our data, with serious consequences.

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Wednesday, 10th April 2013

Making Do With Google's Leftovers

Making Do With Google's Leftovers

Some of the industry's hottest enterprise technology is old news at Google (and other web giants), and likely will remain such for years to come. We are living with yesterday's Google's leftovers.

Enterprise Matt Asay comments

Wednesday, 20th March 2013

Microsoft Azure: Open Source Is A First-Class Citizen

Microsoft Azure: Open Source Is A First-Class Citizen

Microsoft's longstanding strategy of embrace and extend has no place on Azure, which seems to be all about embracing all of the open-source software it can find as it seeks to extend its popularity with CIOs to developers.

Cloud Matt Asay comments

Friday, 15th March 2013

One Hadoop To Rule Them All?

One Hadoop To Rule Them All?

The Hadoop ecosystem is suddenly frothy with competition, and not everyone is going to win. Leading contenders are those that contribute most to the ecosystem, either through Hadoop contributions or add-on software that makes Hadoop more usable.

Enterprise Matt Asay comments

Tuesday, 12th March 2013

Proprietary Hadoop Is A Losing Strategy

Proprietary Hadoop Is A Losing Strategy

EMC has a shiny new Hadoop distribution, which boasts improved performance and ease of use. Despite these apparent advantages, EMC has baked one thing into its product that severely cuts its odds of success: a proprietary license.

Enterprise Matt Asay comments

Monday, 25th February 2013

Microsoft Completes Journey To Big Data Through Hadoop

Microsoft Completes Journey To Big Data Through Hadoop

Today Hortonworks announced a new beta version of its Hadoop Data Platform that will run on Microsoft Windows Server, a move that shows Microsoft's own big data efforts will forever be connected to open source innovation.

Enterprise Brian Proffitt comments

Thursday, 21st February 2013

Red Hat's Big Data Push: All Hat, No Cattle

Red Hat's Big Data Push: All Hat, No Cattle

It's official: Everyone has to be a Big Data provider these days. So Red Hat is now touting its Big Data strategy, which – so far, at least – doesn't amount to much more than Watch This Space.

Enterprise David Hamilton comments

Monday, 11th February 2013

Big Data And The Landfills Of The Digital Enterprise

Big Data And The Landfills Of The Digital Enterprise

Big Data truly is a big deal, but it's not something CIOs need beat themselves up about. They may think the enterprise "Joneses" are outpacing them, but they're probably not.

Enterprise Matt Asay comments

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