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Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: . Any baseball fan knows that analyzing data is a big part of the experience. But data analysis in sports is now taking teams far beyond old-school sabermetrics and game performance. The market for sports analytics is expected to reach almost $4 billion by 2022, as it helps a variety of sports organizations in a range of areas. Here’s how analytics have, and will, become more prevalent in the industry. Helping Teams Win No one knows the role of data analysis better than the Oakland Athletics, the baseball team that general manager Billy Beane ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Dinesh Chandrasekhar. It’s been almost a decade since blockchain technology made its debut. Since then, blockchain has evolved more quickly than anyone could have anticipated. It was designed to be a decentralized tool with potentially dozens of applications. Blockchain startups have attracted billions in venture capital and everyone—from banks to supply chains—is exploring blockchain-based projects. For many, though, a key challenge remains: quantifying success. How can an organization tell when it’s making gains with the technology and justify moving projects forward to the next level? With many companies thinly spreading their resources between different ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Abhas Ricky. Sharing has been a fundamental human trait since our early days. From farmers who shared their crops to the neighbor who lends you her power tool, we have an innate desire to help each other. The sharing-economy business model formalizes this, and opens up new opportunities for engagement. The sharing-economy business model runs counter to our current economy, which has been based purely on ownership. Take that power tool as an example: you buy it, and you own it forever. This transaction doesn’t take the efficiency of that ownership into account. Unless ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Abhas Ricky. The 2018 Hortonworks’ DataWorks Summit events offered me a unique opportunity to talk to customers about the technology zeitgeist. I attended the Hortonworks events in Singapore and Japan, and I came away with a clearer understanding of several emerging technology trends in Asia that are shaping the future of business and fuelling the adoption of hybrid cloud. These events also provided a chance to hear how Fortune 500 executives are creating next-generation data platforms to support future innovations. As-a-Service Models Are Taking Over As I traveled and talked with current and potential ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Robert Hryniewicz. Deep learning skills are often portrayed as a dark art. There’s a common misconception that you need a PhD or a high level of technical expertise to use deep learning—and that’s no longer the case. While deep learning can involve complex algorithms and computational processes, developers and scientists are creating user-friendly applications and high-level methods to help your organization get started with this technology. These developments have made it easier than ever for professionals with basic mathematical aptitude and coding skills to learn and develop deep learning skills. Your organization can use, ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Priyanka Nagwekar. This is part seven of an on going series about the Open Hybrid Architecture Initiative. You can learn more about the vision, key tenets, real-world use case, new storage environment of O3, participation in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and running stateful containers on YARN by reading blogs from earlier in the series.  In today’s day and age, data is an extremely important resource for enterprises.  As organizations work to get maximum insights from data in near real time use cases, the legacy architecture and experience needs an update. It needs a ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Dinesh Chandrasekhar. It is that time of the year – to call out predictions and trends for the year. The two hot areas that are enabling digital transformation across all industry verticals are IoT and edge computing. Let us look at what to expect in 2019 and beyond for IoT. In this post, I am going to focus only on the B2B IoT space and not on the consumer IoT side. Growth of multi-locational data storage With the explosive growth of IoT devices (estimated to be 31 billion devices by 2020), there has been ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Cindy Maike. Insurance risk assessments rely on having a rich history of data and accurate information on current conditions. The more we know about what happened in the past, the more we can predict risk in the future. But what happens when a future without precedent rushes headlong to meet us? That’s the problem facing insurance companies today as they deal with a new class of connected, smart technology devices. These devices are everywhere, connecting wirelessly to the internet and to each other. Internet-enabled thermostats and connected plugs control our homes and office buildings, ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Diana Yanez-Pastor. At Dataworks Summit in Barcelona, Spain in March 2019, we are pleased to have two innovating and leaders in the industry, Commerzbank and Airbus, share their digital transformation strategy. Commerzbank’s digital transformation strategy is about developing its multi-channel approach to helping global customers.  By updating all its processes, designing new products and services to better serve Germany’s evolving enterprises, it’s creating end-to-end and front-to-back digital solutions to improve the banks internal processes.  The bank’s digital transformation is more than just digitalization and automation of relevant processes, it’s about being in the forefront ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Arun Murthy. It’s not just a new year. It’s a new era. Yesterday we were Hortonworks. Today, with the formal completion of our merger, we are Cloudera –  which is now the second largest open source software company in the world. My personal journey in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem started in early 2006. It all started with just a bunch of SVN repositories in the Apache Software Foundation to a public company. Since then, along with the other Hortonworks’ co-founders Sanjay Radia, Owen O’Malley, Alan Gates, Mahadev Konar, Devaraj Das, Suresh Srinivas, Eric Baldeschwieler ... Read More