Tag: hadoop world
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Hadoop World: Talking to Splunk’s Co-founder
Last but not least in the 10 interviews I conducted while at Hadoop World is my talk with Splunk‘s CTO and co-founder Erik Swan. If you’re not familiar with Splunk think of it as a search engine for machine data, allowing you to monitor and analyze what goes on in your systems. To learn more, listen…
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Hadoop World: NoSQL database MongoDB
I’m getting near the end of the interviews that I did while at Hadoop World earlier this month, just one more after this (with Splunk’s CTO and co-founder). Today’s entry features a talk I had with Nosh Petigara, director of product strategy at 10gen, the company behind MongoDB. Some of the ground that Nosh covers Who…
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Hadoop World: Ubuntu, Hadoop and Juju
I’m always interested in what’s happening at Canonical and with Ubuntu. Last week at Hadoop World I ran into a couple of folks from the company (coincidentally both named Mark but neither Mr. Shuttleworth). Mark Mims from the server team was willing to chat so I grabbed some time with him to learn about what he…
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Hadoop World: Karmasphere and big data intelligence
One thing Hadoop isn’t great at right out of the box is data analytics, that’s where a company like Karmasphere comes in. Karmasphere provides business intelligence software that data analysts can use to use to mine the data that Hadoop sucks up. Last week at Hadoop World I grabbed some time with Karamsphere’s Chairman and…