Improving Hadoop Performance with Optimization, CDH3 Update 3, and CDH4
Mahout is a machine learning library that will be included in CDH4 At Cloudera Day, Cloudera software engineed Todd Lipcon…
Cloudera Day in DC
Carahsoft hosted a Cloudera Carahsoft hosted a Cloudera Day in the DC area on 26 January 2012. Cloudera executives speaking at the…
Some Thoughts on Measuring Consumer Marketing’s Affect on the Path to Purchase
For Consumer Goods companies it’s getting harder to argue with the value of knowing consumers and shoppers at an individual…
Big Data Is More than Hadoop
We recently published the results of our benchmark research on Big Data to complement the previously published benchmark research on Hadoop and Information…
Ring in the New Year with New Data Products
For web-based businesses, and of course, those with a web presence (which is just about everyone) there’s a goldmine of…
What Enterprises Can Learn from Major Events and Surprises in 2011
Rather than make predictions for 2012, which are everywhere right now, I want to look back at some of the…
Washington DC Area Hadoop Users Group (HUG)
If you are working on Big Data projects in or around the federal space a resource you will want to…
How to Share Bad Project News
In the spirit of the holiday season, I just wanted to bring some levity to the blog. I’ll leave it…
The Next Generation BI Professional – Things Will Be Very Different
The next generation business intelligence professional is not one who has experienced complex deployments, lengthy project time frames and unpredictable…
