The concept of intelligent automation has always played a key role in Qubole Data Service (QDS). It’s one of the main reasons why we can help our customers bring self-service Big Data access across the enterprise. Intelligent automation also plays a big role in the small ops footprint that QDS requires, helping our customers achieve […]
Important stories live in our data, and data visualization is a powerful means to discover and understand these stories, and then to present them to others. Within Qubole notebooks users can leverage the built-in charting tools to create visualizations. In addition to the built-in charting capabilities, users sometimes find the need to create custom charts. […]
We are excited to be working with Oracle as the premier Big Data partner for the Oracle Cloud Platform. Qubole is the fastest growing Big Data as a service platform, with our flagship product Qubole Data Service (QDS) providing self-service access to Spark, Hadoop, Hive, and many other open source analytics tools to enterprises across […]
Native integration with Oracle’s IaaS ecosystem offers comprehensive big data solution for the cloud SAN FRANCISCO – ORACLE OPENWORLD – Sept. 19, 2016, Qubole, the big data-as-a-service company, today announced that it will be offering a big data service solution for the Oracle Cloud Platform. The Qubole Data Service (QDS) will now natively integrate with […]
Migrating Your Big Data Infrastructure to the Cloud Webinar: Join William McKnight of GigaOM Research and experts from Qubole and WANdisco It’s not complicated why it is that the cloud offers impressive advantages over on-premises computing for many applications. Scalability, lower cost, and a wide array of service offerings make cloud a very tempting tool […]
At Qubole, we’ve made significant progress on our adoption of Spark on QDS with new features and scalability. Here are some recent stats pertaining to Apache Spark on Qubole Data Service (QDS): Apache Spark on QDS–New Features and Highlights To accommodate growing demands and leverage technological advancements made by the Apache Spark community, we […]
Presto is an open source distributed SQL query engine developed at Facebook. It’s built for interactive analytics queries, and like other Big Data processing engines such as Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Hive offered as a service on Qubole Data Service (QDS), Qubole also offers Presto as a service to query data stored on HDFS or […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles discussed how UnderArmour and online betting companies are using Hadoop. New growth projections were released for Hadoop, and Qubole’s CEO weighed in on the past ten years of Hadoop. Read the full stories below. 1. SAP is acquiring big […]
When it comes to Big Data processing in the cloud compared to on-premise, one of the fundamental differences between the two is how the data is stored and accessed. Not having a clear understanding of this underlying difference between, for example, AWS S3 in the cloud and HDFS on-prem leads to a suboptimal service to […]
Intro In a recent blog post, we benchmarked auto-scaling and demonstrated that an auto-scaling cluster was a lot less expensive and only a little bit slower than a static, max-sized cluster. In this post, we decided to quantify this benefit in terms of dollars and cents. Based on our results, we estimate that auto-scaling is […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles discussed the debate of DAS vs. NAS, the origins of performance measurement, and the future of smart cities. Read the full stories below. 1.The DAS vs. NAS Debate for Apache Hadoop Pivotal.io- Direct Attached Storage typically offers better performance […]
When Hadoop is deployed with on-premises architecture, compute and storage are combined together. As a result, compute and storage must be scaled together and the clusters must be persistently on otherwise the data becomes inaccessible. On the cloud, compute and storage can be separated with a service such as EC2 and S3 used as the […]
We are excited to announce the general availability of GitHub integration for QDS Notebooks. GitHub is an effective way to collaborate on development projects. GitHub is version control software that allows users to track the changes they make to their code, as well as being able to easily revert these changes, share development efforts and […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week Uber weighed in on incremental data processing, InfoWorld discussed big data security, and Forbes dived into big data and the olympics. Read the full stories below. 1. Identity crisis threatens to sideline Hadoop as the leader of Big Data SiliconAngle.com-The […]
Intro Have you ever had trouble deciding how large to make a cluster? Do you sometimes feel like you’re wasting money when a cluster isn’t being fully utilized? Or do you feel like your analysts’ time is being wasted, waiting for a query to return? At Qubole, we developed auto-scaling in order to help combat […]
Lyft, Box, Amgen and Scripps Join Growing Roster of Top-Tier Customers MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwired – Aug 4, 2016) – Qubole, the big data-as-a-service company, reported exponential growth over the past six months and strong momentum heading into the second half of 2016. Following its $30 million Series C funding round in January, Qubole has continued […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles discussed emerging challengers to Spark, the spread of Hadoop through the public sector, and experienced engineers weighed in with their advice on how to be successful with big data. Read the full stories below. 1. Big data brawlers: 4 […]
One of the great things about the big data industry is how willing practitioners are to share their knowledge, thinking process and experience. We love it when our customers talk about their implementations and it’s amazing to see what they’ve accomplished. Here’s a collection of some our favorite blog posts: 1.Powering Big Data at Pinterest […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles discussed building a data lake, applications of big data in retail, and Workday’s acquisition of Platfora. Read the full stories below. 1. 9 Ways Retailers are Using Big Data and Hadoop Datanami.com- From identifying a path to purchase to […]
In a previous post, we outlined the case for selecting cloud infrastructure over an on-premises deployment for managing big data workloads. Taking advantage of Spot instances to realize substantial cost savings is one of the benefits of selecting the cloud. Spot instances are a feature of AWS consisting of spare EC2 instances offered at a […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles discussed application of big data in the healthcare industry, the new partnership between Microsoft and Boeing, and the unique storage demands of IOT projects. Read the full stories below. 1. Democratize big data: How to bring order and accessibility […]
This blog post explores how queries can be sped up by keeping optimized copies of the data. First we will explore the techniques and benchmark some sample results. Later, we talk about how one can use Quark (which we detailed in a previous post) to easily implement these performance optimizations in a Big Data analytics […]
New partnership with WANdisco reduces cost and complexity, and eliminates downtime during cloud migration MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. — July 11, 2016—Qubole, the big data-as-a-service company, today announced the launch of its Cloudera Migration Program to assist enterprises in expanding their use of big data by leveraging the advantages of the cloud. As part of the […]
Managing big data creates several challenges for data infrastructure teams: 1. Managing “bursty” and unpredictable workloads 2. Coordinating ad hoc and batch workloads 3. Storing rapidly growing data stores that require the capability to scale quickly 4. Integrating data generated at the edge 5. Managing storage and compute costs While an on-premises deployment has been […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles discussed the convergence of big data and artificial intelligence, applications of big data in healthcare, and the ethics of big data in higher education. Read the full stories below. 1. Hadoop Summit News: ecosystem order, and fragmentation Zdnet.com- A […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles discussed the weaknesses of HDFS, the ODPi announced several distributors had adopted its runtime specifications, and Pepperdata offered a free health check for Hadoop users. 1. HDFS: Big data analytics’ weakest link InfoWorld.com- This post argues Hadoop’s distributed file […]
One of the important functions of a database administrator is to manage storage structures to optimize performance in a relational database. Admins use tables, views, index, and cubes to tune the database as well as control the behavior of users (e.g., discourage full table scans and cross joins). There are similar well-known techniques in the […]
Company Appoints David Hsieh as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Ken Tamura as Vice President of Finance MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA–(Marketwired – Jun 21, 2016) – Qubole, the big data-as-a-service company, today announced that it has made two new additions to its executive team in key leadership roles. David Hsieh has been appointed senior vice […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles discussed strategies for successful Hadoop adoption, overarching methodologies of Hadoop adoption, and implications of big data databases for backup and recovery. Read the full stories below. 1. Two Methodologies Drive Hadoop Enterprise Adoption Data-Informed.com- Many businesses adopting big data […]
Qubole introduced first-generation Caching for S3 files in Presto in 2014 and documented the observed performance gains. In a nutshell: for CPU-efficient engines like Presto and Spark, caching remote files on local disk storage improves performance by removing bottlenecks in network IO. Our users also benefited from these performance gains, as this blog post from […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles discussed the danger of fragmenting open source technology. Doug Cutting weighed in on the impact of the Internet of Things, and several posts addressed big data security concerns. See the full stories below. 1. Spark fragmentation undermined community Techcrunch.com- […]
Apache Spark remains a growing force in the realm of big data. Perhaps that shouldn’t come as a surprise considering the overall momentum behind big data analytics, but the growth in just the past few months has been nothing short of impressive. No doubt part of the reason behind that growth — besides a greater […]
The HBase team at Qubole is happy to announce the general availability of QDS HBase-as-a-Service on AWS. Through the Beta program, QDS has helped administrators run HBase at scale in production with higher uptime and reliability while exploiting cloud elasticity for more agile deployments. In building our HBase offering, we worked closely with early customers […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week a new big data benchmark was released, several companies made announcements in preparation for the Spark Summit, and Splice Machine open-sourced its Hadoop-based RDBMS. Read the full stories below. 1. Big Data Benchmark Gauges Hadoop Platforms Datanami.com- The Transaction Processing […]
Once an obscure academic topic like “big data” used to be, deep learning has evolved into one of tech’s most exciting and promising disciplines in the field of AI—all in just a few short years. And in light of recent breakthroughs, deep learning technology is literally positioning itself (no pun intended) to transform AI altogether. […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week, posts offered strategies for integrating R with Hadoop, tips for protecting data in HDFS, and advice on how to implement a big data strategy. Read the full stories below. 1. Integrating R with Apache Hadoop r-bloggers.com- This post explores three […]
In the beginning, analyzing massive datasets on open source Hadoop was a complex process best left to PhDs. But over the past few years that has dramatically changed. Today, cloud platforms, paired with powerful business intelligence tools, have ushered in the rise of self-service analytics, enabling data analysis power users—along with users lacking a technical […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles discussed Hadoop 3.0, how big data is being applied in the healthcare industry, and the importance of machine learning. See the full stories below. 1. How Spark and Hadoop are Advancing Cancer Research Datanami.com- Researchers are using big data […]
In an ongoing effort to extract more useful information and insights from massive volumes of structured and unstructured data, many organizations have turned to cloud based Hadoop big data analytics solutions such as Qubole. And as effective as these solutions are at capturing and analyzing large data volumes, their ability to interact with powerful Business […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles focused on resources for mastering big data skills, compliance challenges, and Apache’s recipe for big data development. Read the full stories below. 1. Can IT keep up with big data? TechRepublic.com- Communication rifts between business users and IT are […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles discussed the plateau of HBase adoption, common challenges of using Hadoop, and how businesses are overcoming the big data skills shortage. Read the full stories below. 1. HBase: The database big data left behind InfoWorld.com- HBase adoption has plateaued […]
Big data projects are becoming much more common as organizations seek to take advantage of all that big data has to offer. While many companies are on board with the idea of implementing a big data project, properly executing one is another matter entirely. Many factors have to be considered, from what types of legacy […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles explored big data applications including strengthening authentication and predicting the NBA playoffs. Read the full stories below. 1. Rise of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Bloomberg.com-Artificial Intelligence is gaining prominence in the software industry. Read More 2. Elephant in […]
This post was written by Chris Chanyi, Senior Data Architect at TubeMogul. It originally appeared here. TubeMogul handles over a trillion HTTP requests a month. To understand how we handle this amount of data, it’s important to understand how we started. Read on for an in-depth look at our big data history. One of our […]
With all the hype, it’s little wonder that organizations are getting caught up by the idea of having their own big data initiatives. But as promising as that idea sounds, the reality is that over half of all big data projects never reach fruition. And when it comes to on-premise big data initiatives, the majority […]
Qubole, the big data-as-a-service company, and Looker, the company that is powering data-driven businesses, today announced that they are integrating Looker’s business analytics with Qubole’s cloud-based big data platform, giving line of business users across organizations access to powerful, yet easy-to-use big data analytics. Business units face an uphill battle when it comes to gleaning […]
Qubole, the big data-as-a-service company, today announced it has open sourced StreamX, an ingestion service to help data teams efficiently and reliably capture large scale, real-time data. Qubole will be adding support for StreamX as a managed service on the Qubole Data Service (QDS) platform to simplify and automate the ingestion of data for big […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles discussed developments in managing Hadoop, the release of Apache Storm, and the challenge of quality of service. Read the full stories below. 1. 3 Reasons Why In-Hadoop Analytics are a Big Deal Dataconomy.com- Improvements to the leading SQL-on-Hadoop technologies […]
Most organizations have grand visions when it comes to using big data. Needless to say, there’s been a lot of hype surrounding big data analytics, with a lot of emphasis placed on businesses starting their own big data projects. Perhaps your company is interested in a big data project or has already started one. While […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles covered big data use cases in construction, privacy concerns and updates to Apache HAWQ. Read the full stories below. 1. Hadoop versus Spark: Who’s winning? LinkedIn.com- Will Spark overthrow Hadoop? Or will the two continue to coexist. Read More […]
The benefits of big data in the enterprise are no longer in question. Thanks to Hadoop, organizations both large and small are finding real value in capturing, storing, and analyzing large volumes of unstructured data. However, as data volumes continue to rise at exponential rates, organizations looking to stay profitable and competitive must be able […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week LinkedIn released another Hadoop tool, Hortonworks made several announcements, and MarketShare shared what it has learned since its Hadoop deployment. See the full stories below. 1. MarketShare’s big data do-over: Hadoop deployment overhaul ZDNet.com- MarketShare initially tackled the problem of […]
This post was originally published August 2014 and has since been updated. Once the subject of speculation, big data analytics has emerged as a powerful tool that businesses can use to manage, mine, and monetize vast stores of unstructured data for competitive advantage. As a result, the rate of adoption of Hadoop big data analytics […]
Qubole, the big data-as-a-service company, today announced that it has open sourced Quark, a cost-based SQL optimizer that helps to simplify and optimize access to data for data analysts. Traditionally, the data sets generated by data teams are aggregated and copied to multiple analytics systems to balance performance and cost, making it near impossible to […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week we’re fresh off of Strata + Hadoop world. It was also announced that Cloudera’s value has been slashed. Read the full stories below. 1. To SQL or NOSQL? That’s the database questions Arstechnica.com- The line between SQL and NoSQL databases […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a popular topic of discussion as it represents the direction the world is likely headed. Imagining a world filled with connected devices, each communicating with each other, opens up so many intriguing possibilities that can change our lives in new and exciting ways. While the prospect of the […]
Grab the latest news and commentary in one place with this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week the Open Data Platform regrouped and released its first project. Other articles discussed big data’s next steps to providing true business value. See the full stories below. 1. Newcomer Galatic Exchange can spin up a Hadoop cluster in five […]
This is a guest post written by Rory Sawyer, Software Engineer at MediaMath Here at MediaMath, we’re quite fond of data. It would be surprising to hear someone say they’re not fond of data, of course, but we’ve spent the last 18 months proving to ourselves and our clients that we really mean it. Our […]
The lure of big data analytics is unmistakeable and strong, and with good reason. Businesses have quickly caught on to the numerous advantages big data can give them. The benefits and potential are tremendous, and companies are responding by freeing up more budget for big data endeavors. A survey from Gartner in 2014 indicated that […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles discussed the complexity of managing Hadoop, from learning how to configure Hadoop to choosing between the plethora of open source management tools. See the full stories below. 1. Don’t Expect Your DBA to Do a Hadoop Expert’s Job Data-Informed.com- […]
The appointment of Suresh Ramaswamy will help Qubole scale its multi-tenant SaaS platform and develop highly responsive big data platforms to cater to industry demands. Qubole, the big data-as-a-service company, today announced that it has appointed Suresh Ramaswamy as Qubole’s Head of Web Services. In this role, Suresh will help Qubole scale the web services […]
In today’s ultra competitive business world, mobile technology, social media have made the customer king. No longer is it enough for a company to have quality products and services. In order to truly stand out from the competition and build a solid reputation, companies need to provide quality customer service on a consistent basis. Fortunately, […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week MapR updated Hadoop to provide persistent storage, learn how LinkedIn uses Hadoop to leverage Big Data, and MapR President and COO explains why he left software giant Oracle. Read the full stories below. 1. MapR invites Docker and Mesos to […]
This post was originally published in July 2015 and has since been expanded and updated. Apache Spark is quickly gaining steam both in the headlines and real-world adoption. UC Berkeley’s AMPLab developed Spark in 2009 and open sourced it in 2010. Since then, it has grown to become one of the largest open source communities […]
Andrew Daniels brings more than 20 years of experience in enterprise security to address industry-specific needs Qubole the big data as-a-service company, today announced that it has appointed Andrew Daniels as Qubole’s first chief information security officer (CISO) and vice president of security, compliance and privacy. As CISO, Daniels will focus on developing industry-leading security […]
Qubole, the big data as-a-service company, announced today it will be extending its customer support services with the launch of Qubole Education, an extensive resource to empower data users throughout an organization with the skills needed to successfully implement a cloud-based data project. Qubole’s cloud-agnostic big data platform allows users to implement the right data […]
In a recent survey of 766 respondents, Qubole uncovered several insights about the state of big data adoption. Among those currently using a big data implementation, Big Data-as-a-Service users were 33% more likely to be satisfied with their big data projects. The survey also demonstrated significant growth of BDaaS adoption in the enterprise, and echoed […]
Technology is transforming the banking and finance industry. Thanks to the Internet and the proliferation of mobile devices and apps, today’s financial institutions face mounting competition, changing client demands, and the need for strict control and risk management in a highly dynamic market. At the same time, technology has given rise to powerful business intelligence […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week Yahoo open-sourced CaffeOnSpark, a benchmark displayed the strengths of various SQL-on-Hadoop engines, and one CTO weighed in on how he’d use data science if he were running for president. Read the full stories below. 1. Yahoo open-sources CaffeOnSpark deep learning […]
“Show me the money.” That’s not just a line made famous in a Tom Cruise movie. It’s what the CEOs and CFOs of organizations that have bought into Big Data initiatives are now demanding of their IT departments—“Show us how you are deriving monetary value from our data.” It’s a valid request. After all, today’s […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week Google’s Dataproc was made generally available, Spark continues to piggyback on Hadoop, and a post from Teradata discussed several deployment models. See the full stories below. 1. Google launches Cloud Dataproc service out of beta VentureBeat.com- Google’s Cloud Dataproc, a […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. – Feb. 19, 2016 – Qubole, the big data-as-a-service company, is pleased to announce that Silicon Valley Business Journal is honoring Marcy Campbell, Qubole’s senior vice president of worldwide sales and business development, with its Women of Influence Award. The Women of Influence honorees exercise power and influence within their industry and […]
Students Will Be Able to Conduct Data Analysis on Any Size Data Sets Using the Latest Technologies Such as Apache Spark, Presto, Hive and Hadoop on Qubole’s Self-Service, Infinitely Scalable Cloud Platform Qubole, the big data as-a-service company, announced today it will be donating time on the Qubole Data Service (QDS) to university classes, giving […]
With businesses eagerly pursuing big data analytics, it only stands to reason that they’d look for the methods and strategies that will best help them get the most out of it. There are many ways to perform analytics, and each will change depending on the type of business and what insights organizations want to gain. […]
This post was written by Yogesh Garg and Sumit Maheshwari, who are Members of the Technical Staff at Qubole. We are pleased to announce that Qubole has open sourced an Airflow extension to connect with Qubole Data Service (QDS). Using this extension, our customers will be able to use Airflow for creation and management of […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week Gartner re-worked its BI Magic Quadrant, surveys once again demonstrated the growth of Apache Spark, and Hortonworks proved it’s not in financial straits. Read the full stories below. 1. Back to Work Hadoopers, Hortonworks Is Fine CMSWire.com- Hortonoworks’ secondary stock […]
It’s a long held belief that data stored on-premises is a lot more secure than storing that data in the public cloud. However, that may not be the case. While cloud security concerns have been around as long as cloud computing has existed, cloud providers have gone to great lengths to address them, improving their […]
Grab the latest news and commentary about Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles discussed warning signs that a Hadoop cluster is underperforming, predictions for Hadoop’s second decade and how big data is used for humanitarian aid. Read the full stories below. 1. Why Most Business Intelligence Tools Fail the ‘Hadoop Test’ Information-Management.com- […]
Swati Singhi, a Member of the Technical Staff at Qubole, was recently featured as a speaker at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, held in Bangalore, India. The Grace Hopper Celebration is the world’s largest technical conference for women in computing, and it is designed to bring the research and career interests of […]
Introduction We previously wrote about the optimizations we made to optimize Hadoop and Hive on S3. Since then, we’ve applied those same changes across the rest of our Big Data analytics offerings, including Spark and Presto. Today, we’ll discuss some new recent optimizations we’ve made to further make querying of data performant and efficient for […]
Big Data infrastructure is complex, difficult to build and operate, and often requires highly specialized talent to maintain. To alleviate these challenges, businesses are turning to the cloud to provide simplicity, flexibility and agility. The graphic below highlights Qubole customers’ leadership due to the ease of administration, scaling, lifecycles, flexibility, and costs. Qubole […]
In today’s world of big data, information technology is advancing at unprecedented rates. This presents some major challenges for organizations in general, and CIOs in particular, as they search for ways to boost growth and profits in the face of mounting competition. Not long ago the terms “big data” and “competitive advantage” were dismissed as […]
Grab the latest news and commentary about Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week industry thought leaders weighed in on Hadoop’s 10th birthday. Multiple posts addressed potential big data use cases including applications of GeoSpatial data. See the full stories below. 1.Hadoop turns 10, Big Data industry rolls along ZDNet.com- Hadoop’s founder Doug Cutting […]
We were delighted to see the announcement of the latest version of Cloudera Director, and a corresponding write up on Curt Monash’s DBMS2 blog. The industry’s movement toward cloud-optimized features, such as support for Spot Instances and dynamic creation and termination of clusters, validates the direction that we’ve set for our company and product. Qubole’s […]
Technology is reshaping our world. The proliferation of mobile devices, the explosion of social media, and the rapid growth of cloud computing have given rise to a perfect storm that is flooding the world with data. The challenge for enterprises is that, according to Gartner estimates, 80 percent of this “big data” is unstructured, and […]
Grab the latest news and commentary about Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week a new Hadoop survey was released, Qubole secured additional funding, and PCWorld covered why open source is the new normal. Read the full stories below. 1. Why open source is the ‘new normal’ for big data PCWorld.com- Talend’s CEO believes […]
This blog post originally appeared on the Import.io blog. Start the new year off right by making sure your Big Data team is aligned. It is the goal of many business leaders to effectively utilize big data analytics to improve their companies. That means having the best people on the job as part of a […]
IVP leads Series C financing along with existing investors CRV, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners Qubole, the big data-as-a-service company, today announced that it has closed a $30 million Series C financing, bringing its total funding to $50 million. IVP led the financing and General Partner Somesh Dash will join the Qubole board […]
Grab the latest news and commentary about Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week surveys indicated a growing interest in Spark deployment, and Datanami discussed the growing SQL on Hadoop market. Read the full stories below. 1. How Barclays is cashing in on big data & Hadoop to stay ahead in fintech CBROnline.com- Head […]
A large crowd recently attended the Boulder/Denver Big Data Meetup group hosted by Oracle where experts from Qubole discussed their latest findings from a real world case study. The evening’s presentations were titled “Case Study: Machine Learning at Scale using Spark and Hive” and detailed practical ways businesses can implement machine learning techniques using the […]
Grab the latest news and commentary on Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles offered predictions on the future of big data and cognitive computing and discussed why Hortonworks’ stock value continues to falter. Read the full stories below. 1. 16 for ’16: What you must know about Hadoop Spark right now InfoWorld.com- […]
In this blog post, we’ll show you how we collect metrics and set up alerts to ensure the availability of Qubole Data Service (QDS). QDS Architecture Before getting into the details about monitoring, we’ll give a quick introduction to the QDS architecture. QDS runs and manages Hadoop/Spark/Presto clusters in our customers’ AWS, GCP, […]
Most businesses understand that big data analytics is where it’s at. They view data science as the one new thing they need to truly improve their operations and become even more successful as an organization. The problem, though, is that too many companies are failing at data science. One report from Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) and […]
Grab the latest news and commentary about Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week articles focused on data governance and getting the most out of a Hadoop deployment. InformationWeek offered its predictions for the coming year. See the full stories below. 1. Data governance process taxed by self-service BI, big data Techtarget.com- Data governance […]
Businesses are truly coming around to all that cloud computing has to offer. While the cloud has been around for years, only recently has it reached levels of popularity where it isn’t hyperbole to refer to it as a global phenomenon. This has lead to many companies taking advantage of the public cloud’s many benefits, […]
Grab the latest news and commentary about Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. It was a short news week due to the holiday. This week stories covered the expected growth of big data analytics and the growing data science talent shortage. Read the full stories below. 1. The Top 3 Big Data Trends of 2016 […]
Qubole, the big data as-a-service company, today announced that it has appointed Jonathan Trail as Qubole’s first Vice President of customer success. As VP of customer success, Trail will work closely with Jonathan Buckley, SVP of marketing, and Marcy Campbell, SVP of worldwide sales and business development. Together, they will work to continue the company’s […]
Grab the latest news and commentary about Hadoop in this week’s Hadoop Happenings. This week the Transaction Processing Performance Council release a new performance benchmark, a podcast discussed big data in the election season, and an article explores how eBay uses big data. 1. Hadoop in Banking: Changing the Game PredictiveAnalyticsWorld.com- Big data has multiple […]
In the early days of big data, Apache Hadoop wasn’t just the “elephant in the room”, as some have called it. Hadoop was the room. But that is all changing as Hadoop moves over to make way for Apache Spark, a newer and more advanced big data tool from the Apache Software Foundation. There’s no […]
Qubole, the big data-as-a-service company, today announced the availability of Apache Spark on Qubole Data Service (QDS) for Google Cloud Platform. The integration will enable Google Cloud Platform customers to use QDS’s 1-click persistent Spark Notebooks for fast data analysis, and auto-scale Spark clusters that deliver the right compute power for specific workloads. Qubole Data […]
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