Nov 18

Cloudera has set up a page that links to lots of presentations from Hadoop World.

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Oct 13

Cloudera and Microstrategy have announced that they are working on integrating business intelligence and Hadoop.  Microstrategy will make it possible for users to generate reports based on data stored in Hadoop without having to write any code.  Cloudera is now offering an ODBC driver connecting Hadoop to Microstrategy.  Check out the Cloudera press release for more information.

Sep 23

A recent Business Week article, “Getting a Handle on Big Data with Hadoop“, highlights a number of companies (Walmart, Amazon, Walt Disney, General Electric, Nokia, and Bank of America) using Hadoop to solve some large scale problems. Cloudera has broken down the problems into two main areas:

  1. data processing – Hadoop’s original use case. Log file processing, etc.
  2. advanced analytics – social network analysis, target marketing, content optimization, etc.

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Mar 24

Cloudera has a post on their blog by one of the engineers from Rapleaf about transitioning their infrastructure from MySQL to Hadoop and then benefits it offered for scaling.

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Sep 22

Cloudera has formed an integration alliance with Greenplum. Cloudera will integrate their distribution of Hadoop with Greenplum’s Chorus product. Read more at ZDNet.

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Oct 05

As the Open Source software movement continues the strengthen, questions abound about where the opportunities to create commercially viable solutions. Red Hat did it with Linux. Can Cloudera do it with Hadoop? Read this GigaOm article.

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Jul 09

The guys from Cloudera put together the following executive overview of what Hadoop can do for big data.

Hadoop and Big Data 1: Challenging Old Assumptions from Cloudera on Vimeo.

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May 20

Cloudera put together this list of 10 MapReduce tips.

You might also want to check out their list of 5 common Hadoop questions.

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May 02

Cloudera founder, Jeff Hammerbacher, has a new data book available – Beautiful Data: The Stories Behind Elegant Data Solutions

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Apr 25

Cloudera’s online Hadoop training videos now include two sessions for Apache Pig thanks to some help from Alan Gates at Yahoo.

Introduction to Pig
Pig Tutorial

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