A study by analyst IDC shows how companies are using the open source Hadoop big data analytics systems alongside other systems to get value out of their data. IDC’s “Trends in Enterprise Hadoop Deployments” report, ...
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The need by corporate IT operations to enable easier interaction with massive -- and fast growing -- data sets in Hadoop environments is driving a flurry of vendor activity. For one, Splunk last week rolled out a beta version of an ...
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"Amazon Elastic Map Reduce runs like a dog. It's pathetically slow, we've done benchmarks. It's because it's metered; they charge by the minute." Further reading Outage hits Amazon Web Services as Google lies in wait Intel launches own ...
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Cloud computing company Rackspace has sued two companies it describes as 'patent trolls' for breach of contract, and asked a federal court for a declaratory judgment that it did not infringe three patents owned by one of the companies, ...
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Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets. While many large organizations are still ...
Teradata has fired the starting pistol in the race to make unstructured,semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing manageable and accessible in a single integrated architecture. With the arrival of its"Unified Data ...
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LAS VEGAS--SAS Institute this week unveiled tools it says makes it easier for its enterprise customers to use the company's business analytics software to analyze data stored in Hadoop environments. At its Premier Business Leadership ...
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Enterprises should ask a lot of questions when a vendor touts its business intelligence(BI)products as being fully integrated with Hadoop. The hype around Hadoop has pushed many BI vendors to proclaim their support for big data technology ...