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Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Michael Lin. You have probably heard of the 3Vs of big data – Volume, Variety, and Velocity. They define the three dimensions of big data, and the challenges that the hyper-connected digital world has produced over the last decade – the massive volume and increasing variety of data generated at rapid velocity that companies can’t keep up with traditional data management approach. Then there’s the fourth “V” – Veracity, pointing out the growing concern and complexity over the reliability of data: whether it is accurate or whether it can be trusted. As the numerical ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Shane Kumpf. This is the 5th blog of the Hadoop Blog series (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4). In this blog, we will explore running Docker containers on YARN for faster time to market and faster time to insights for data intensive workloads at scale. For over half a decade, the Apache Hadoop YARN community has been hard at work enabling the building blocks for running a diverse set of data intensive workloads at unprecedented scale. The YARN community is constantly looking at ways to enable new use cases and improve existing ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Michael Lin. I had the pleasure of attending this year’s RSA conference, which many consider the biggest cybersecurity exhibition in the U.S. While there were eye-catching show booths in the form of a movie theater, spaceship, video gaming room, and more, what was truly stimulating was the meaningful conversations on enterprise cybersecurity challenges and solutions that took place at these fanciful settings. After one week of drinking from the firehose, I distilled my observations and conversations with security professionals at the expo to the following 3 takeaways: What happens when a product reaches its ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Matt Spillar. Earlier this week, Hortonworks announced financial results for the first quarter of 2018. The year has started off on a strong note, as our CEO Rob Bearden announced another record breaking quarter! The Q1 revenue of $79.1 marked a 41 percent growth compared to the prior year. Q1 also was another quarter of positive operating cash flow. Hortonworks has been a public company for over four years now, and in that time, has evolved from the leading Hadoop provider to the leading global data management platform company. The continued growth in both ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Michael Lin. I had the pleasure of attending this year’s RSA conference, which many consider the biggest cybersecurity exhibition in the U.S. While there were eye-catching show booths in the form of a movie theater, spaceship, video gaming room, and more, what was truly stimulating was the meaningful conversations on enterprise cybersecurity challenges and solutions that took place at these fanciful settings. After one week of drinking from the firehose, I distilled my observations and conversations with security professionals at the expo to the following 3 takeaways: What happens when a product reaches its ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Rob Bearden. This article was originally published by CEO Views, Security Special, April 2018 If you are a business leader, you are well aware that the challenges of information security have never been more daunting. Security remains one of the top unresolved challenges for businesses today. And the problem is only growing. Hacking today is much more complex than just scanning and penetrating the network via a known vulnerability. Yet the traditional tools in most companies are often inadequate. When business leaders ask me for advice on cybersecurity, here are the four tenets I ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Roni Fontaine. This post was originally published on the DataWorks Summit Blog.  I had the honor and pleasure to moderate the panel for the “Women in Big Data Lunch” on April 18, during Dataworks Summit in Berlin. Our distinctive panelists included: Mandy Chessell – Distinguished Engineer, IBM Ellen Koenig – Data Scientist, formerly of Europace AG Tina Rosario – Chief Data Officer, SAP – Head of Women in Big Data EMEA Nicolette Bullivant – Head of Data Engineering, Santander Maria Ryzhkova – Big Data Platform lead, MSD (Merck) First, thanks to the panelists for ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Matt Spillar. Early last year we announced the Hortonworks Data Heroes initiative. It’s our way of recognizing the Data Visionaries, Data Scientists, and Data Architects transforming their businesses and organizations through Big Data. Hortonworks has over 1,300 total customers spanning every industry, each with a unique Big Data journey. Our Data Heroes program lets us highlight a few customers who are helping create radical change in their industries. WHO ARE THE DATA HEROES? A Data Visionary:  who recognizes the potential of Big Data to transform their organization, and leads the business to turn that vision into reality. Winners will show ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Dinesh Chandrasekhar. As much as data marketplaces seem viable, they have not gained traction still. There are some marketplaces that are available for industry/public data sets like D&B Data Exchange, AWS Public Datasets etc. However, the vision for ecosystems to start sharing enterprise data sets is yet to materialize. More than any of the other technical reasons that may be quoted here, the most prominent reason is Trust. Public data sets, such as weather, stocks, census etc can be verified, qualified and consumed fairly easily without any larger impact downstream. But, when key business ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Guest Author. Guest Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani, Offering Manager, IBM Db2 Big SQL Rules of the game for data analytics have changed. Data is no longer only available in relational databases. With data flowing in from various sources like IoT sensors, clickstream, mobile, etc., data is moving in at a much faster and richer pace. One caveat is, the data coming from various sources are not always in the same format. With such high volume, variety, and velocity data, we get a chance to take analytics up a notch to have deep analytics to forecast ... Read More