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Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Tom Hastain. Last week I wrote about how Big Data is transforming the oil & gas industry. This week I want to touch on the healthcare industry. This is yet another front in the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is transforming our lives in ways Dr. Quinn never could. Consider some of the ways the healthcare industry is now leveraging Big Data: Remote patient monitoring Telehealth Insights into patient behavior Managing chronic diseases Improving patient experience Reducing the per capita cost of healthcare Forward-thinking healthcare providers now capture their patient’s medical records with Hadoop. They’re ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Simon Ball. Modern cybersecurity solutions now need to scale to a unprecedented level due to the growing volume and variety of data. Scale issues have gone from being about sheer volume of traffic such as those from of IOT led DDoS attacks or even the diversity of traffic you get from a high variety of device types, but also from the need for absolute speed to nip things in the bud and catch things before they become a problem. With this, it creates a massive long tail problem – a huge amount of data ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Melissa Park. Join us in Sydney on September 20-21 for DataWorks Summit/Hadoop Summit, the industry’s premier big data community event. Attend this year and learn from your peers and industry experts how open source technologies enable you to leverage all your data, on premise and in the cloud, to drive predictive analytics, distributed deep-learning, and artificial intelligence initiatives. Planning is well underway and we can’t wait to deliver our biggest and best APAC Summit to-date! Here are just a few of the reasons you will want to attend: Over 60 sessions of cutting edge ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Kevin Jordan. Have you ever thought about the amount of energy you consume just by leaving your laptop plugged in overnight? We might not know how many kilowatt hours we transmit, but we do know there is a bill at the end of each month associated with those kinds of statistics. Through smart meters, utility and energy companies must have an accurate account of energy consumption in order to prevent outages, increase grid reliability, and detect fraud. The challenge becomes making sure the dollars they charge matches up to the data they collect. Big ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Roni Fontaine. LLAP wins the fastest execution among the SQL engines! Comcast is one of the nation’s leading providers of communications, entertainment and cable products and services. Headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, they employ over 100,000 employees nationwide whose goal is to deliver the highest level of service and improve the customer experience. Comcast decided to run what they call their “Hadoop Query Performance Smackdown” for SQL engines. The Comcast Big Data team uses an enterprise data like with over 1000+ daily active users running on 70 racks with petabytes of usable enterprise data available ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Matt Spillar. A 30-minute pizza delivery window used to be cutting edge, but times have changed. Not only have our attention spans shortened, but as customers, we have higher expectations. We live in the age of right now, “good enough” is no more. Companies must continually evolve to provide excellence to their customers. It seems the efficiency we once craved is now what we expect as the status quo. This innovation must occur, or companies risk being left behind as yesterday’s news. When you think about the pizza delivery process, you see how painfully ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Tom Hastain. Last Saturday, the Financial Times published an article titled, “BP looks to big data to help weather weak oil price” which explained why BP is expanding their data storage from one petabyte to six petabytes. It almost seems counter-intuitive, especially in an age of increased competition and renewable energies. Yet BP, along with the rest of the oil & gas industry, recognizes that Big Data is the next industrial revolution. Collecting and retaining that data are the first two critical steps for a business to thrive in this Fourth Industrial Revolution. The ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Anna Yong. Here at Hortonworks, we help big data projects be as successful as possible.  Part of that success is based on Hortonworks SmartSense. SmartSense provides a collection of tools and services to proactively prevent common cluster problems. With SmartSense customers can quickly capture the diagnostic information required to resolve issues. AND, it generates proactive recommendations that improve cluster performance, security and operations. But what does all this mean? In previous case studies we shared how three machine learning generated recommendations of Hortonworks SmartSense helped Pinsight tune their Hadoop deployment and double their Hadoop performance ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Kevin Jordan. With every swipe of a credit card, every social media interaction, and every opened email advertisement, businesses are continuously trying to gain a single view of customers. Along with this mountain of data comes a lot of risk. Cyber crime has reached an all-time high – it is more brazen, and much more sophisticated. Companies don’t have to just worry about simple phishing emails anymore; cyber crime has escalated to extortion. What good is a 360-degree of the customer without a single view of cyber security? Needle in Data-Stacks There is no ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Kevin Jordan. Usually, customer demand prompts the need for innovation. If enough people need something, companies adapt to meet the requests of their consumers. Today, the development and evolution of mobility and telecommunications have outpaced our ability to create such a demand. Data is Like the Back of Your Hand Our data knows us more than we know ourselves. The data a telecommunications company is able to generate based on our behaviors and mobile phone usage provides a snapshot of ourselves that empowers businesses to develop new products, tailor existing applications, and offer new ... Read More