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Or read beyond this first sentence: “Another day, another set of choice words hurled at one Hadoop vendor by another. This time, it’s Hortonworks doing the hurling, claiming that Cloudera’s business model isn’t designed for today’s big data market.
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Critics who scream that Hadoop platforms lack security can now begin to calm down. Last month Hortonworks bought XA Secure, a data company that provides a comprehensive security suite for Apache Hadoop.
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Until now, we thought the Hadoop wars were only between the distro providers. But that’s no longer the case. It seems other ecosystem vendors who provide ancillary solutions are coming after Cloudera as well, claiming to have solutions that outperform it.
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Teradata users love Teradata. It’s a relationship that’s rarely found in the world of enterprise technology. And quite frankly, until you talk to enough of Teradata’s customers, it’s hard to believe it exists.
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Hadoop, Hadoop distros and the technologies and analytics around big data keep getting more widespread and more pragmatic to use because the benefits of leveraging them are now both proven and obvious. Rather than pontificate further, we’ll just bring you the notable news we think is worthy of your attention.
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Hortonworks may be making big data history today when it announces the acquisition of XA Secure, a data company that provides a comprehensive security suite for Apache Hadoop. “It’s a game-changer for Hadoop,” said Tim Hall, vice president of Product Management at Hortonworks.
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Hortonworks business strategy certainly has its naysayers. They claim the venture capital backed company won’t be able to generate the kind of revenues Wall Street investors expect without selling proprietary software that compliments or extends open source Apache Hadoop or any other open source software, for that matter.
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Leave it to Box CEO and chief Microsoft critic Aaron Levie to spread the word, check out his tweet yesterday: Someone at Microsoft officially pressed the "we're not screwing around anymore" button. Quite impressive to watch. — Aaron Levie (@levie) April 15, 2014 Obviously Levie was tuned into the same
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For now, MapR seems to be sitting on the sidelines of the “My Hadoop distro is better than yours” game, and as Jack Norris, the company’s CMO puts it, “we’re concentrating on doing what’s best for our customers.
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We can’t remind you often enough that Apache Hadoop is still an emerging technology. Not just that, but that it takes education, training, time and experience to build tools that work with it.
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Just before Pivotal CEO Paul Maritz left his former job at VMWare, he gave what might be called an “I have a dream” speech. He began by acknowledging that the Software Defined Data Center marketplace didn’t belong to VMware alone, and ended it with a vision for a company that
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Even Amazon Web Services sage Werner Vogels is impressed with Cloudera’s partnership with Intel and the 900 M it has raised in the last week. Congrats @mikeolson on the new @cloudera funding round. Impressive group of investors! http://t.co/nQYgyKbPKL — Werner Vogels (@Werner) March 31, 2014 The future of the data
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Hadoop sits at the center of big data. So does the news around the ecosystem, there’s a lot of it.
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Dare you. Go into your CFO’s office and ask her to quantify the returns on your company’s big data assets. You may very well come back with a bill. That’s because while data storage is cheap and keeps getting cheaper, it still isn’t free.
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