Posts Tagged Hadoop

Big Data in the Valley: theCUBE at Strata Conference 2013

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Analytics, Big Data, Wikibon on February 25, 2013


Tomorrow marks the kickoff of Strata Conference 2013. This year, SiliconANGLE Wikibon is expanding its coverage from two days to three full days of live broadcast from the show floor. Tune into theCUBE at SiliconANGLE.tv all week to catch it all, and log on to strataconf.com/live between 8:45 am and 10:00 am PST Wednesday and Thursday to watch the live keynotes.

We start things off Tuesday morning when we welcome Edd Dumbill, Co-Chair of the Strata Conference, to theCUBE. Edd and hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier will preview the upcoming action and layout the themes we’ll be covering.

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Making Hadoop Safe for Mission Critical Applications

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data on January 8, 2013


We all know there’s lots of excitement and buzz surrounding Hadoop, but talk to some CIOs in “non-web” industries about moving mission critical apps to the open source Big Data framework and you’re bound to hear a little fear in their voices.

They’re worried that Hadoop is not ready for primetime because it has a single point of failure. That is, if the NameNode in a cluster goes down, the entire cluster goes down. Spinning clusters back up into working order following a NameNode failure takes time and, by definition, mission critical applications can’t go down … ever. Until the SPOF is solved, more than a handful of Fortune 500 companies will continue paying Oracle through the nose rather than risk a disruption to critical apps.

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Management and Connectivity Focus of New HP Hadoop Appliance

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Analytics, Big Data on December 4, 2012


With its Hadoop appliance announcement at HP Discover in Frankfurt today, HP is determined to bring its hardware and infrastructure management expertise to the open source Big Data framework. The AppSystem for Hadoop appliance is a single SKU box that bundles pre-tuned hardware, including HP network switches and ProLiant Gen8 servers, optimized with one of three Hadoop distributions from Cloudera, MapR or Hortonworks.

While the new appliance is hardly the first of its kind – EMC Greenplum, Teradata Aster, among others, already have Hadoop appliances on the market – HP’s version provides enterprises with solid cluster management capabilities that allow it to integrate with exiting infrastructure, a choice of Hadoop software, and includes connectivity to HP’s other notable Big Data assets Vertica and Autonomy.

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Don’t Let Misconceptions Limit Your Hadoop Options

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data on October 22, 2012


Developers don’t get spooked easily. But in a market like Big Data, dominated by open source code and free software, the term ‘proprietary’ can send shivers down a developer’s spine.

The fear (or is it disdain?) is sometimes justified. No developer wants to get locked in to a platform that dictates which tools she can use, which data sources she can integrate, which hardware she must deploy or that makes switching to a competing platform too costly to justify.

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Double Threat: #theCUBE at Strata Conference + Hadoop World

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Analytics, Big Data, Wikibon on October 18, 2012


Next week theCUBE is back in action, this time covering two Big Data conferences in one. Strata Conference + Hadoop World on theCUBE kicks off live Wednesday (10/24) morning at 10 am ET on SiliconANGLE.tv. We’re broadcasting all day Wednesday and all day Thursday (10/25) from New York City with virtually non-stop live interviews with the smartest nodes at the conference.

We’ve identified the most compelling news and trends that will be developing at the show and programed our coverage to flesh them out in great detail. Among other trending topics, you’ll get full coverage and analysis of the emerging Big Data application development market, the state of real-time analytics in Hadoop environments, and new ecosystem partnerships, as well as some great advice for Big Data practitioners from Big Data practitioners.

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Clearing Up Some Confusion on the Hadoop Wars

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Analytics, Big Data on August 17, 2012


Our friend Matt Asay, who oversees business development for streaming Big Data analytics player Nodeable (read hear about Nodeable’s recent shift in business model), penned a column today sizing up the Hadoop distribution competition. Asay narrows the competitors to two – Hortonworks and Cloudera – and proceeds under the premise that only one of the two can and will survive.

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Big Data in Focus: theCUBE @ Hadoop Summit 2012

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data, Wikibon on June 8, 2012


theCUBE Summer Tour continues next week when we roll into San Jose June 13th and 14th with live coverage of Hadoop Summit 2012. Presented by Hortonworks, Hadoop Summit brings together an incredible array of players in the Big Data market – both new school Hadoop providers like Hortonworks, Cloudera, Hadapt, MapR and Datameer, as well as tried-and-true IT vendors from IBM and Microsoft to Oracle and HP.

There are also a slew of Hadoop practitioners on-hand at the event, many of whom will join myself and SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier in theCUBE to share their experiences and advice with colleagues just getting started with Big Data. They include Intuit, Adobe, Klout, Twitter and Sears. As always, the show will be streamed in live HD at SiliconANGLE.tv.

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Real Time Research, Hot IT Trends: #theCUBE 2012 Summer Tour

Posted by Wikibon in Wikibon on May 14, 2012


Wikibon research is based upon open source sharing amongst peers and SiliconANGLE’s live video broadcasts with theCUBE are a great enabler of this mission. The upcoming schedule of shows highlight the biggest megatrends of IT including cloud computing, big data, converged infrastructure and more. Wikibon will share its latest research findings and go in-depth with IT practitioners on-air. Come join the Wikibon community on-site or streaming in the comfort of your home or office. All of the details for the summer tour:

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Big Data Changing the Business Frontier

Posted by Wikibon in Big Data on April 4, 2012


Imagine being able to predict the future. To foresee market trends. To identify the wants and needs of people before their cravings hit. What if a company could explain correlations between business actions and unrelated spikes to sales in different sectors? One could confidently predetermine a path to success by providing answers to questions that haven’t arisen yet. What if the information to determine these predictions was already available and being constantly updated? If one could harness that information, asking new and innovative questions of it, do you think the world would change? Count on it. The watchword is Big Data, and it has the power to revolutionize the way we think about using information.

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Strata Conference: The Continuing Story of Hadoop

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data, ServicesAngle on March 6, 2012


I’m back from Strata Conference and after three days, 16 keynote presentations, countless sessions, 20+ hours of live coverage via theCUBE, and two very long flights from Boston to Silicon Valley and back, these things I’m sure of:

  1. Big Data, namely Hadoop, is for real.
  2. It still has some maturing to do.

You know a technology is headed to the mainstream when the two “Elite” sponsors of the premier event designed to showcase that technology are Microsoft and EMC. Neither company is known for adopting and promoting emerging open source technologies, to put it mildly. But there they both were at Strata Conference, the event dedicated to open source Big Data approaches like Hadoop and NoSQL, topping the list of event sponsors. They were followed not far behind by fellow IT giants and Strata “Impact” sponsors IBM and Oracle.

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