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Strata + Hadoop World This week I attended my sixth Strata + Hadoop World. Actually, in the beginning they were two separate shows, but the evolution since has been more than the combining, or convergence...
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Mitesh Shah, Senior Product Manager for Security and Data Governance at MapR, describes an important concept in big data security: vulnerability management, which is a key layer in the trust model. He...
Dale Kim, Sr. Director of Industry Solutions at MapR, describes the monitoring capabilities of the MapR Data Platform, which easily give you a single view of all cluster operations. Leveraging popular...
With the increasing amount of information that we use daily, technology is only becoming more and more important in everything we do. And businesses are seeing this at much greater scale than we do as...
“Big Data” is no longer a buzzword. Businesses big and small that don’t invest now in big data technologies risk getting left behind as the marketplace becomes more and more data-driven. In fact, a recent...
MapR Event Store for Apache Kafka and MapR Database are both very exciting developments in the MapR Data Platform. In this blog post, I’m going to show you how to get Ruby code to natively interact with...
User On-Boarding Basics with MapR MapR XD provides some very useful capabilities for data management and access control. These features can and should be applied to user home directories. A user in a...
Is there a case to be made for big data for security analytics? The answer is an unqualified “yes.” In fact CSO Magazine called cyber security “the killer app” for big data analytics. Meanwhile a recent...
With all the talk about Big Data, most organizations are barely out of the starting blocks when it comes to exploiting it for business benefit. Gartner estimates that 85% of Fortune 500 companies are yet...
Organizations embracing big data are ready to put data to work, including looking for ways to effectively analyze data from a variety of sources in real time or near real time. To be able to do so at scale...
What’s clear to me is that we are in the midst of the biggest change in enterprise computing in decades: a shift in how data is stored, analyzed and processed is changing the way businesses operate and...
In this week's Whiteboard Walkthrough, Mitesh Shah, Product Management at MapR, describes how you can track administrative operations and data accesses in your MapR Data Platform in a seamless and...
We are excited to share with you that Gartner has named MapR a Visionary in the Gartner 2016 Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics. Gartner evaluated 21 software...
Hadoop is a key data technology for Big Data, as everyone knows. But the question becomes, how can Big Data help make me more competitive, more efficient, and better able to detect fraud, security breaches...
In this article, I am going to show you how to use the Distributed File and Object Store impersonation feature to create and access a file in MapR XD. In this example, we will run a Java program as the...
This is the second post in a series about the MapR Command Line Interface. The first post gave you an idea of how to use the command line to review your cluster nodes, what services were running, and how...
With MapR version 5.0 being released recently, MapR customers got yet another powerful feature at no additional licensing costs: Auditing! In this two-folded blog post, I’ll describe various use cases...
Here at MapR, developer productivity is critical to us. In order to keep our pace of innovation high and give customers more choice and flexibility in Apache Hadoop and other open source projects we ship...
In this post, I’ll show you what happens behind the scenes, from the time a user fires any job from a Client/Edge node or Cluster node, until the time the job actually gets submitted to the JobTracker...
_This blog post is the second post of a four-part series, and is based on the Radiant Advisors white paper titled “Driving the Next Generation Data Architecture with Hadoop Adoption” which examines the...
Lately I’ve talked to lots of people who are just getting their heads wrapped around the value of big data software such as Apache Hadoop, but are getting stuck figuring out the details. What kind of servers...
Gartner just released a comprehensive research report based on a survey highlighting the adoption trends around Hadoop, which sheds some light on where and how customers are getting value from Hadoop....
There is some real math behind the idea that you need 3x replication in Hadoop. The basic idea is that when a disk goes bad, you lose an entire stripe of storage. Assuming that the contents are spread...
So you’ve researched the general capabilities of Hadoop, and have worked with your colleagues to identify the first set of big data use cases to tackle. Now, you’re ready to take the plunge and select...
I recently wrote an article about how to get a Big Data initiative back on track. In the comments section, a user challenged how such an initiative is different to a traditional analytics project. That...
This is a tremendously exciting time for those who work in clinical genomics. The demand for cutting-edge technologies that deliver fast and accurate genome information has exploded. In 2013, close to...
Big data challenges and opportunities are rapidly spreading across a huge number of organizations, large and small, in a wide range of verticals. Not surprisingly, people are turning to scalable solutions...
Big data made a huge leap forward in 2014 in terms of the increased adoption of big data technologies among enterprises. Where is big data heading in 2015? At the beginning of this year, MapR CEO John...
Today, MapR introduced Quick Start Solutions, a powerful package of services, software and training/certification to help you jump-start your deployments of enterprise data hub, security and marketing...
The following is a guest blog post from Sean Kandel, CTO & Co-founder of MapR Partner, Trifacta_._ It’s no secret that enterprises are increasingly adopting Hadoop for a variety of analytic purposes...
Did you know that not all Hadoop distributions are the same? As Hadoop deployments grow, the architectural differences between Hadoop distributions begin to show dramatic cost differences. These differences...
Today MapR announced the availability of free Hadoop On-Demand Training for developers, analysts and administrators. Hadoop On-Demand Training offers full-length courses on a range of Hadoop technologies...
This article was originally published by Igor Izotov on his LinkedIn profile here. There are resources and there are Resources. The old statement is still valid: Your project's success is entirely...
Information wants to be free. Open source is free. Moore’s law is making computing free. Free, Free, Free. Enough already with the free. In the real world, computing costs money. Making great products...
With Hadoop becoming more prominent in customer environments, one of the frequent questions we hear from users is what should be the storage format to persist data in Hadoop. The data format selection...
The community version of Apache Hadoop 2.6 was released recently. Some of the cool new things that are part of the Hadoop 2.6 release include changes to YARN to support rolling upgrades, where the ResourceManager...
Big data is a universal phenomenon. Every business sector and aspect of society is being touched by the expanding flood of information from sensors, social networks, and streaming data sources. The financial...
Some people say I am biased toward certain technologies. That is a completely true statement! Granted, it does depend on the specific technology. But just because I may be biased with certain technologies...
One of the most recent and highly used functional programming language is Scala. It is used in some of the Hadoop ecosystem components like Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, etc. So it would be really useful...
Previous posts in this series provided insights about nine good reasons why customers choose MapR: from security to performance and TCO to ease of integration. All this is due to the superior architecture...
In this blog series, we’re showcasing the top 10 reasons customers are turning to MapR in order to create new insights and optimize their data-driven strategies. Here’s reason #3: MapR provides ease of...
In this blog series, we’re showcasing the top 10 reasons customers are turning to MapR in order to create new insights and optimize their data-driven strategies. Here’s reason #5: MapR provides complete...
In this blog series, we’re showcasing the top 10 reasons customers are turning to MapR in order to create new insights and optimize their data-driven strategies. Here’s reason #9: MapR provides a read...
To get real with Hadoop, you need a real enterprise-ready platform. Join us as we begin the countdown of the 10 top reasons our customers choose MapR. Security has always been important with enterprise...
Why do this? There are many use cases for time series data, and they usually require handling a decent data ingest rate. Rates of more than 10,000 points per second are common and rates of 1 million points...
Snapshots come up in most technical discussions of enterprise-grade applications. Hadoop applications are no exception. Jack Norris talks with Industry Analyst Donnie Berkholz about snapshots to help...
NFS is the Network File System. It's been part of Linux and the broader Unix ecosystem for decades and been used for a long time in both enterprise environments to share files as well as in customized...
Following the alpha milestone release in November 2013, the open source incubator project Apache Drill is well on its way towards its next big milestone, the 1.0 beta release. In fact, you can be part...
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