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Is Open Source Part of Your Search Stack?
Vendors now integrate selected open source projects to deliver specific capabilities, along with a licensed proprietary commercial platform.
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Hortonworks, Dropbox, Microsoft, GE: Hot or Not?
There's at least one elephant that isn't dancing in Silicon Valley this morning. Tim Hall, vice president of product management at Santa Clara, Calif.-based Hortonworks, is parting ways with the company, CMSWire has learned.
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Hortonworks' Vision for the Future of Data #HadoopSummit
More than a thousand big data enthusiasts from all over Europe will gather at the Hadoop Summit at the Dublin Convention Center in Ireland tomorrow and Thursday to hear Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden and other executives reveal their vision for the future of data.
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Did Hortonworks CEO Take One For the Team?
When Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden took questions from analysts during the company’s earnings call on Feb. 10, Barclays managing director Raimo Lenschow put him on the spot.
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MapR Makes More Moves
Talk to Jack Norris, MapR’s newly appointed senior vice president of data and applications, and he’ll insist that MapR is the data platform of the future. “No one else has what we have for running mission-critical applications” he told CMSWire, referring to MapR’s newly patented Converged Data Platform (CDP), which
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Hortonworks' Big Data Play Reaches Beyond Hadoop
Hortonworks has a new vision that not only leverages data at rest in Hadoop, data streaming in Spark and data in motion in Apache NiFi, but also data at the tipping point where data itself sets the roadmap.
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WSJ Hortonworks Headline Makes Heads Explode
For about five hours Friday night, the Wall Street Journal made a startling prediction: “Hortonworks to Offer Proprietary Software.” Those who follow the company, which has been emphatic in its commitment to the open source Apache Way, could hardly believe what they were reading.
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Why MapR Just Shook-Up Its Management
What's Hadoop Got to Do with It?
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AtScale: We Know the Best Engine for BI on Hadoop
Hive, Impala or Spark?
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Back to Work Hadoopers, Hortonworks Is Fine
When Hadoop purveyor Hortonworks (HDP) filed a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a $100 million secondary stock offering last month, jaws dropped. Though the move wasn’t altogether unexpected, the timing and the urgency surrounding it seemed suspicious. It spooked Wall Street and prompted a sell-off.
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Hortonworks Wants Another $100M - and Investors Aren't Happy
When startups win a round of funding, they typically win applause. But when a 4.5-year-old publicly traded company — even one that completed its initial public offering (IPO) in arguably record time — it can look like the beginning of the end.
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Hortonworks Sets a Record
We measure software companies by all sorts of metrics — product downloads, customer acquisitions, revenue growth. But for startups there’s an especially important one: How long it takes to reach $100 million in annual revenue. Last August we shared Barclays prediction that Hadoop distro provider Hortonworks was expected to hit
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MapR Bets Big on Former Oracle Exec Matt Mills
MapR isn’t just another Hadoop distro provider. “We sell enterprise software,” said John Schroeder, CEO and Chairman of the Board since founding the company in 2009. Schroeder told CMSWire that MapR isn’t even “in the same business” as Hortonworks and Cloudera, MapR’s competitors through the eyes of many.
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What Good Is an In-Hadoop JSON Database? #StrataHadoop
MapR CMO Jack Norris won’t tell us if an IPO is still in the cards this year for his big data crunching startup. But he had plenty to share about the news his company is making at Strata + Hadoop World, which runs through Thursday at Javits Center in
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