Hadoop 2.0 will be announced within a matter of days, and a new YARN framework component at its core promises to "take Hadoop beyond MapReduce," according to Arun Murthy, chairman of the Apache committee overseeing the release. Moving beyond slow, iterative MapReduce processing is obviously a good thing, but just what are the new possibilities?Better SQL querying, graph analysis and stream processing are al ...

oday IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced it is helping the City of Dublin use Big Data to identify and solve the root causes of traffic congestion in its public transport network throughout the city, which means improved traffic flow and better mobility for commuters. Integrating data from a citywide network of sensors with geospatial data means that city officials are able to better monitor and manage traffic in rea ...

It’s not everyday that you hear of a company manages to quietly raise two venture rounds from A-list investors while spending two years developing its technology in stealth mode. But that is exactly the story behind big data analytics and business insights (BI) startup EdgeSpring, which today publicly launched its product and announced $11 million in Seed and Series A funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield ...

Microsoft has been steadily pouring money into big data and business intelligence. The company of course owns the most widely used analytical tool in the world, Microsoft Excel, which our benchmark research into Spreadsheets in the Enterprise shows is not going away soon. User resistance (cited by 56% of participants) and lack of a business case (50%) are the most common reasons that spreadsheets are not be ...

Your big data shouldn’t create big problems. In fact, it has the capacity to minimize your business problems and help you make strategic decisions. We’ve identified five misconceptions that might be getting in your way of unleashing your company’s big data potential: via 5 Misconceptions of Big Data. ...

Technology is ever-changing. But perhaps the one thing IT teams can count on is that the amount of data coming their way to manage will only continue to increase. The numbers can be staggering: In a report published last December, market research company IDC estimated that the total count of data created or replicated worldwide in 2012 would add up to 2.8 zettabytes (ZB). For the uninitiated, a zettabyte is ...

The Hadoop market is on a tear, growing at a compound annual growth rate of roughly 60%, according to IDC. But why it's growing, or rather, how it's being used, might surprise you. Given all the media hype around Hadoop and its power to predict everything from the optimal number of raisins in your cereal (23) to the exact date of Armageddon (next Tuesday - call in sick), it's perhaps surprising to learn tha ...

The Hadoop explosion continues, with the number of organizations adopting the platform growing at a compound annual growth rate of about 60 percent, according to the International Data Corporation. However, ReadWrite's Matt Asay wrote that many of the companies adopting it are still acclimating to Hadoop and aren't using it at its optimal capacity. Currently, most organizations that use Hadoop take advantag ...

For years little has been known about what stealthy energy data startup C3, founded by Siebel Systems bazillionaire Tom Siebel, has actually been up to. The company has been like a Will Smith summer blockbuster that’s supposed to come out three years from now and will only hint at its plot through artsy abstract trailers. Well, turns out, school is finally out for the summer for C3 — the company has just co ...

Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, and Cloudera, the category leader that sets the standard for Apache Hadoop in the enterprise, today announced a strategic alliance that delivers big data analytics across the enterprise. The relationship ensures best-in-class integration of Splunk® Enterprise to Cloudera Enterprise using Splunk Hadoop Connect, ...