Cloudera and Mount Sinai: The structure of a Big Data Revolution?
Can a disruptive molecular biologist and the leading company in the Hadoop ecosystem make medical research change its methodologies for the better?
Big on Data
Veteran data geek Andrew Brust covers Big Data technologies including Hadoop, NoSQL, Data Warehousing, BI and Predictive Analytics.
Andrew Brust
Andrew J. Brust has worked in the software industry for 25 years as a developer, consultant, entrepreneur and CTO, specializing in application development, databases and business intelligence technology.
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Hadoop in the Cloud with Amazon, Google and MapR
June was a big month for the cloud and for Hadoop. It was also a big month for the intersection of the two.
Big Data Technology: Are You in Over Your Head? (ZDNet Hot Topics webcast)
I sit down with Mike Hoskins, CTO of Pervasive Software and host Jonas Tichenor as part of ZDNet’s Hot Topics series. Catch this replay of the webcast to see our analysis of Big Data and how its established and emerging technologies can be used to give your organization a competitive edge.
Data Quality and Hadoop
With the emergence of Big Data and new analytic data platforms that handle different kinds of data, such as Hadoop, do the same data stewardship practices that have been around since the mid 90’s still apply?
A Big Data 1-2 punch: Syncsort partners with Hortonworks and Greenplum
How can Hadoop and Enterprise data warehouse technology be made to work together in the 2010s? Ask a company that started with mainframes in the 1960s.
Big Data -- a big deal for small business
The digitization and networking of nearly everything is presenting new opportunities for small businesses, says IBM's Rod Smith.
Analytics helps hospitals avoid billing losses
Opera Solutions' machine learning technology helps hospitals' clinical and administrative systems interoperate better, and bill more accurately.
Making Hadoop Safe for Clusterophobics
Hadoop focuses on what it needs to do to become more consumable for the enterprise; a tooling ecosystem addressing “clusterophobia” and consumption.
Teradata Aster integrates Hadoop metadata natively
Data warehousing kingpin Teradata's Aster unit and Hadoop ecosystem all-star Hortonworks have teamed to integrate Hadoop's meta data store into Aster Database's. This will facilitate remote queries, locally persisted data, and relational-Hadoop data mashups.