Cloudera has set up a page that links to lots of presentations from Hadoop World.
Nov 18
JP Morgan Chase and others reiterated “We’re hiring” at the recent Hadoop World Conference. This Information Week article recaps just how hot a commodity a Hadoop engineer is.
Oct 21
The Tableau customer conference is just ending in Las Vegas and here’s a Tableau visualization with the conference’s Twitter posts. Tableau has announced that their newest version, version 7, will feature support for Hadoop and Hive. Here’s the blog post about the demo complete with a video.
Oct 15
Manning Publications has recently completed their book, Mahout in Action. The book covers three main areas: 1) Collaborative Filtering, 2) Clustering, 3) Classification. Here’s a review of the book from DZone.
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.
Oct 11
IBM has been making a lot of data related acquisitions recently and today they added another company to their collection, Platform Computing. Platform Computing is a software company that makes tools to manage large computing clusters. They’ve also got some Hadoop/mapreduce related offerings which may be IBM’s interest area.
Oct 04
Oracle has just announced their Big Data Appliance in this press release. There’s some NoSQL stuff in there related to Oracle’s ownership of Berkeley DB. There’s some Hadoop stuff in there. And there’s some R stuff too.
Check out the post on the O’Reilly radar blog for more info.
Sep 08
The company may only be a few months old, but Platfora has just raised $5.7M to build out a data management platform for open source Hadoop. Their aim is to build tools for analysts to make working with big data easier. Check out the VentureBeat article and the Techcrunch article.
