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Making big data easier yields M for Hadoop startup Concurrent
Concurrent founder Chris Wensel devised the open-source Cascading framework for abstracting away the complexities of running MapReduce jobs on the open-source Hadoop big data software for storing and processing lots of different kinds of data.
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Gazzang buy gives end-to-end encryption for Cloudera Hadoop
Cloudera will incorporate technology from its acquisition of encryption software provider Gazzang into Apache Hadoop so that industries with stringent security regulations can use the big-data processing platform. Gazzang's technology will permit …
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Actian, HP Vertica Join SQL-On-Hadoop Bandwagon

Actian, HP Vertica Join SQL-On-Hadoop Bandwagon
Actian on Tuesday joined the long list of companies that have introduced a way to support SQL access and querying on top of Hadoop. The announcement comes just a week after HP upgraded SQL-on-Hadoop functionality it introduced late last year through …
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Hadoop's horse race: Will Cloudera & Hortonworks go the distance?
Jeff kelly One of the biggest talking points at this year's Hadoop Summit is the race between its two high profile competitors, Cloudera and Hortonworks. The competition is heating up as the market matures, particularly in light of Cloudera's recent …
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The new conversation on Hadoop's business outcome|#HadoopSummit
teradata The Hadoop world should focus on business outcomes, as cool visualizations and queries are nothing if the data does not generate value for the organization. Oliver Ratzesberger, the SVP of Software at Teradata, explained that the new …
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Hadoop Hits the Big Time

Hadoop Hits the Big Time
I'm speaking this week at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose, and it's quite a revelation for me. As a speaker on the business value of Big Data, I don't normally get invited to events like this, which tend to be highly technical. This one is technical too …
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Microsoft gives SQL Server tech to Hadoop — and helps itself
Microsoft's been fond enough of Hadoop to give the platform a special place in its Azure cloud as HDInsight. And also fond enough, it seems, to keep HDInsight updated with the latest stable release of Hadoop, version 2.4. This time around, the update …
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