Is the end of Hadoop near?

A significant stock price correction took place in April for two of the three major Hadoop distributions (Cloudera and Hortonworks – the third one, MapR, not being a publicly traded company).

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Syncsort joins Microsoft’s one commercial partner program to help companies move data to the cloud

Syncsort, the global provider in Big Iron to Big Data software, announced it has been named to Microsoft’s One Commercial Partner program to support customers’ Microsoft Azure Cloud initiatives.

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Hortonworks introduces Operational Services to simplify and accelerate the journey to data-driven insights

Hortonworks, Inc., a provider of global data management solutions, has introduced Hortonworks Operational Services to help customers manage big data deployments and more quickly maximise the value of their data.

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MapR launches DataOps Governance Framework across enterprise applications

MapR Technologies, Inc., a provider in delivering one platform for all data, across every cloud, is now offering an extended open data governance approach for all data across enterprise applications.

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MicroStrategy delivers analytics for everyone with MicroStrategy 10.9™

MicroStrategy® Incorporated, a worldwide provider of enterprise analytics and mobility software, announced the general availability of MicroStrategy 10.9, the newest feature release to the company’s MicroStrategy 10™ platform.

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Survey shows Hadoop projects grow in size and complexity as organisations use it to grow capacity and cut big data costs

Syncsort, a global provider of Big Iron to Big Data solutions, announced the results from its third annual Hadoop survey, showing that as users gain more experience with Hadoop, they

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Big data, big hype, getting bigger but not grown up quite yet

As an industry observer, I’m never quite sure how much hype to believe. When it comes to big data there has certainly been plenty of hype, but not a lot

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Clearlake capital-backed Syncsort acquires Trillium Software

Syncsort Incorporated, the global provider of Big Iron to Big Data solutions backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P., announced that it has signed a definitive agreement with Harte Hanks, Inc. to acquire

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Harnessing big data for effective and cost-efficient CEM

Of all the technology changes in the past three years perhaps the most significant has been the revolution that is underway with data. So called “big data” has enabled progressive

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The new data-plumbing that gets telcos going in double-quick time: Part 1

Telecommunications companies now have to squeeze the maximum value from all of their data faster and more accurately than ever.

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