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Stripe Open Sources Tools For Apache Hadoop

December 9, 2014 Alex Giamas http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/12/Stripe-Open-Source-Tools-Hadoop Stripe, the internet payments infrastructure company recently announced open sourcing a set of internally developed tools based on Apache Hadoop. Timberlake is a dashboard for Hadoop jobs. Written in Go with a React.js frontend it improves on existing Hadoop job trackers. By providing waterfall and boxplot visualizations for jobs, […]

Banishing the Confusion of Eight Big Data Myths

December 9, 2014 Chris Preimesberger http://www.eweek.com/database/slideshows/banishing-the-confusion-of-eight-big-data-myths.html Enterprises of all types and sizes are realizing that data sets being stored or archived in silos or in clouds—information they might have had considered too old or irrelevant, or only for regulation purposes—may have great potential value. It’s all about looking at a business’ history, making cogent queries, […]

NoSQL Databases: Niche Tools Slowly Taking Their Place in the Enterprise

December 8, 2014 Dick Weisinger http://formtek.com/blog/nosql-databases-niche-tools-slowly-taking-their-place-in-the-enterprise/ NoSQL databases store and retrieve data using techniques other keeping data in structured tabular format like that used in traditional relational databases. Compared to relational databases, NoSQL databases are often simpler in design, can scale more flexibly, and enable very fine-grain access to data. While NoSQL databases dominate database […]

Even With 20 Years in Tech I Learned These Lessons as a First-Time CEO

December 8, 2014 Gary Nakamura http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/240524 After working as an executive in the high tech industry for more than 20 years, I’ve learned my fair share of lessons along the way. After completing my first year as a first-time CEO, a startup nonetheless, it’s become clear that growing, managing and running a company is no […]

Concurrent Releases New Version of Big Data Application Performance-Monitoring and Management System

http://www.dbta.com/Editorial/News-Flashes/Concurrent-Releases-New-Version-of-Big-Data-Application-Performance-Monitoring-and-Management-System-100611.aspx November 18, 2014 Hadoop is still a young technology and working with it can be difficult for enterprise organizations. To help alleviate the challenges, Concurrent has announced the latest version of Driven, a big data application performance-monitoring and management system. Driven is purpose-built to address the challenges of enterprise application development and deployment for […]

New products of the week

November 17, 2014 Ryan Francis http://www.networkworld.com/article/2848015/data-center/new-products-of-the-week-11-17-2014.html Visit the link above to see the full slideshow. Driven is featured on the fourth slide. Key features: The latest release of Driven offers enterprises unprecedented visibility into their data applications, providing deep insights, search, segmentation and visualizations for SLA management while collecting rich operational metadata in a scalable […]

Cascading Backer Boosts Hadoop App Performance Management

Doug Henschen November 6th, 2014 http://www.informationweek.com/big-data/software-platforms/cascading-backer-boosts-hadoop-app-performance-management/d/d-id/1317282 With Hadoop quickly emerging as an applications platform as well as a big data-processing environment, Concurrent is broadening its Driven application performance-management system to monitor and manage a variety of data-centric applications. Concurrent is the commercial vendor behind open source Cascading, arguably the most popular big data application-development option […]

Bossie Awards 2014: The best open source big data tools

Steve Nunez, InfoWorld Sep 29, 2014 http://www.infoworld.com/article/2688074/big-data/big-data-164727-bossie-awards-2014-the-best-open-source-big-data-tools InfoWorld’s top picks in distributed data processing, data analytics, machine learning, NoSQL databases, and the Hadoop ecosystem Cascading The learning curve for writing Hadoop applications can be steep. Cascading is an SDK that brings a functional programming paradigm to Hadoop data workflows. With the 3.0 release, Cascading provides […]

Cascading on Apache Tez — Delivering on the promise of next generation compute

Gary Nakamura, Concurrent, Inc. Sep 23, 2014 http://hortonworks.com/blog/cascading-on-apache-tez Concurrent Inc. is a Hortonworks Technology Partner and recently announced that Cascading 3.0 now supports Apache Tez as an application runtime. Cascading is a powerful development framework for building enterprise data applications on Hadoop and is one of the most widely deployed technologies for data applications, with […]

Eight tips for resilient big data apps

Howard Solomon, IT World Canada August 25, 2014 http://www.itworldcanada.com/post/eight-tips-for-resilent-big-data-apps One of the problems with big data applications is they have to handle big data — we’re talking huge data sets. As Supreet Oberoi, vice-president of Concurrent Inc. , a maker of the Cascading application development framework, points out in a column for GigaOM, if they […]