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Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Vinay Shukla. Our customers increasingly leverage Data Science, and Machine Learning to solve complex predictive analytics problem. A few examples of these problems are churn prediction, predictive maintenance, image classification, and entity matching. While everyone wants to predict the future, truly leveraging Data Science for Predictive Analytics remains the domain of a select few. To expand the reach of Data Science, the Modern Data Architecture (MDA) needs to address the following 4 requirements: Enable Apps to consume predictions and become smarter Bring predictive analytics to the IOT Edge Become easier, more accurate & faster ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Simon Ball. With the increases in data volumes, explosion in number of devices and sophistication of attackers, current cybersecurity tools are challenged processing the millions of events and providing insights fast enough. Cybersecurity teams spend hours analyzing threat events by going from one tool to the next.  We are pleased to announce the general availability of Hortonworks Cybersecurity Package (HCP) that provides a single pane of glass view into threat events across your entire landscape. The package offers full Hortonworks support for the Apache Metron project, which is an open source cyber security platform ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Matt Spillar. Lloyds Banking Group has been awarded this year’s data accolade for its Digital Analytics System Delivery (DASD) project. The goal was to build a data environment that could be used to derive predictive models for fraud detection. Lloyds Banking Group partnered with Hortonworks to create a data analytics platform and integrated a data science toolkit suite. The DASD platform infrastructure and application components enable improved ingestion, transformation and processing of data via distribution and storage of multiple sources. By partnering with Hortonworks, the Group was able to put into place an integrated ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Will Xu. As more and more workloads are being brought onto modern hardware in the cloud, it’s important for us to understand how to pick the best databases that can leverage the best hardware. Amazon has introduced instances with directly attached SSD (Solid state drive). Both Apache HBase and Apache Cassandra are popular key-value databases. In this benchmark, we hope to learn more about how they leverage the directly attached SSD in a cloud environment. The benchmark is designed for running Apache HBase and Apache Cassandra in an optimal production environment. This means using ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Guest Author. Guest authored by Ross Porter, Director Presales Systems Engineering EMEA, DellEMC One of the hottest topics for both DellEMC and Hortonworks today is how to protect big data repositories, data lakes, from the emerging breed of cyber-attacks. We sat down to discuss this topic to address some of the common questions we’ve faced, and would love to know your thoughts and contributions. Our thanks also to Simon Elliston Ball for his contributions to the discussion. What are the new threats that pose a specific threat to big data environments? The threats to ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Carole Gum. This blog was originally published on the DataWorks Summit Blog.  I’m very excited to be heading down under for DataWorks Summit/Hadoop Summit, at the International Convention Centre in Sydney, Australia. This big data community event designed for developers and technical decision makers and will be packed with information—featuring breakout sessions and crash courses on everything from open source technology best practices to real-life experiences shared by the community. There is something for everyone, whether you are just beginning your big data journey or have vast big data experience and insights to share ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Matt Spillar. In business, numerous decisions are made every day with the goal of being as successful as possible. A wrong move could mean unhappy customers and loss of revenue. With so much at stake, what drives these decisions? A cornerstone is the first stone placed when constructing a new building. This stone is used as the foundational piece for the rest of the building. All other building uses the cornerstone as the reference point. If the cornerstone is weak or misplaced, the rest of the building is doomed for failure. In the same ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Piet Loubser. The annual Strata Data Conference will make its next stop in New York the week of September 25-29. The core theme of the conference this year is around driving business transformations through the power of data. And in the world of data, few topics excite as much as data science, machine learning, and deep learning. And with good reasons! The combination of the Hadoop big data world and the much older data science, machine learning world is a perfect marriage. The Big Data Journey While Apache Hadoop has been around for a ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Roni Fontaine. With the explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT), businesses need to reevaluate their existing data strategies and adopt a more modern data architecture.  Building a near-real time streaming application that take advantage of data-in-motion can be a daunting journey to undertake. Most streaming applications require a considerable amount of coding, testing and time to deploy. Scaling, reusability, and achieving operational agility are just some of the common pitfalls associated with existing software architectures. With the introduction of Streaming Analytics Manager, part of Hortonworks DataFlow, application developers can easily build a streaming ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Kevin Jordan. What eventually drives us to purchase something online? This isn’t a hypothetical or philosophical question, as businesses are forced to find answers every day. Consumers across every industry have access to almost anything they can find on a search engine, however with such a big supply of goods, businesses must manage the Big Data that’s generated from these clicks. In the hospitality industry especially, companies need to reduce the amount of clicks it takes for someone to make a purchase. Rising above the internet noise, companies in the hospitality space need solutions ... Read More