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MeetUp | Cascading: A Java Developer’s Companion to the Hadoop World – Nov 11, 2014
Sign-up here: http://www.meetup.com/sfjava/events/200779752 When: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 6:00 PM Where: Twitter Office 1355 Market St #900 San Francisco, CA 94103 What: Amid all the hype and investment around Big Data technologies, many Java software engineers are asking what it takes to become big data engineers. As Java professionals, towards which path shall I steer […]
READ MOREConcurrent Delivers Performance Management for Apache Hive and MapReduce Applications
November 10, 2014 Richard Brueckner Concurrent, Inc., a leader in data application infrastructure, has introduced a new version of Driven, a leading application performance management product for the data-centric enterprise. Driven is purpose-built to address the challenges of enterprise application development and deployment for business-critical data applications, delivering control and performance management for enterprises seeking […]
READ MOREHortonworks Goes Broad and Deep with HDP 2.2
From full support for Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, and the Cascading framework to updated management consoles and SQL enhancements in Hive, there’s something for everybody in Hortonworks’ latest Hadoop distribution, which was revealed today at the Strata + Hadoop World conference in New York City. Hadoop started out with two main pieces: MapReduce and HDFS. […]
READ MOREHadoop is in the Mind of the Beholder
Mar 24, 2014 Nick Heudecker and Merv Adrian http://blogs.gartner.com/nick-heudecker/hadoop-is-in-the-mind-of-the-beholder/ In the early days of Hadoop (versions up through 1.x), the project consisted of two primary components: HDFS and MapReduce. One thing to store the data in an append-only file model, distributed across an arbitrarily large number of inexpensive nodes with disk and processing power; another […]
READ MOREThese big data companies are ones to watch
Katherine Noyes, Fortune June 13, 2014 http://fortune.com/2014/06/13/these-big-data-companies-are-ones-to-watch/ Which companies are breaking new ground with big data technology? We ask 10 industry experts. “I think graphs have a great future since they show data in its connections rather than a traditional atomic view,” [Gartner’s Sicular] said. “Graph technologies are mostly unexplored by the enterprises but they are […]
READ MOREDeals of the day: Trinseo sets IPO terms
Dan Primack Jun 2, 2014 http://fortune.com/2014/06/02/deals-of-the-day-trinseo-sets-ipo-terms/ Today’s VC, PE, IPO and M&A news. Venture Capital Deals Concurrent Inc., a San Francisco-based enterprise data application platform company, has raised $10 million in Series B funding. Bain Capital Ventures led the round, and was joined by return backers Rembrandt Ventures and True Ventures.
READ MOREThe Daily Startup: Venture Debt Firms Making Deals, Despite Competition
Zoran Basich, Wall Street Journal Jun 2, 2014 http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/06/02/the-daily-startup-venture-debt-firms-making-deals-despite-competition/ Concurrent, whose software enables customers to more quickly build and manage big-data applications, raised $10 million in Series B funding led by Bain Capital Ventures.
READ MORESD Times 100: The Elements of Success
May 30, 2014 http://sdtimes.com/sdtimes-100/2014/best-in-show/big-data-business-intelligence-2014/ Big Data & Business Intelligence 2014 Big Data has hit it big. Every company that has reams of data is looking for ways to effectively store, retrieve and interpret it all. Fortunately these vendors are working on handling this otherwise daunting task, making the mountain of Big Data look like a […]
READ MOREGetting a handle on Hadoop
May 28,2014 Alex Handy http://sdtimes.com/getting-a-handle-on-hadoop/ Tune and monitor the cluster A single bad stick of RAM in one machine can make an entire cluster sluggish. When you’re building your applications and your Hadoop cluster itself, you’ll want to be sure you’re able to monitor your jobs all the way through the process. Chris Wensel, CTO […]
READ MOREBig Data 100: The emerging Big Data Vendors
May 22, 2014 Rick Whiting http://www.crn.com/slide-shows/applications-os/300072896/big-data-100-the-emerging-big-data-vendors.htm/pgno/0/12 Concurrent Top Executive: CEO Gary Nakamura Concurrent, founded in 2008, offers application middleware technology that businesses use to develop, deploy, run and manage big data applications. The company’s products include the Cascading application development framework and Driven application performance management software. Last month the San Francisco-based company debuted Cascading […]
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