Amazon had some great news at AWS re:Invent 2014 in Vegas—and we were there to hear it. Most of them were geared toward enterprises and developers, but three stood out...

Xplenty notification emails now include “View Job” and “View Cluster” action buttons. The buttons are available at the inbox level, so you can easily interact with jobs and clusters in...

Apache Spark is setting the world of Big Data on fire. With a promise of speeds up to 100 times faster than Hadoop MapReduce and comfortable APIs, some think this...

Big Data is mostly famous, well, for being big. So if you have anything under a petabyte, why would you even think about using Apache Hadoop? But you should.

Following our post about Hadoop security for the enterprise, or the lack thereof, one of the ways to make Hadoop more secure is by installing an additional platform. Five major...

Google BigQuery is a great Big Data warehouse on the cloud for the SQL-savvy. But it’s not right for everything. Google itself recommends using Hadoop’s MapReduce rather than BigQuery for...

New Xplenty features: Redshift merge, Google AdWords Reporting integration and scheduler enhancements

Next week we’ll be heading down to Vegas for AWS re:Invent 2014. We’re eager to meet the Big Data community and attend AWS sessions. There are quite a few of...

While Hadoop has proved its power for scalable storage and processing of Big Data, it may not be enterprise-ready when it comes to security. Hortonworks, Cloudera and MapR address this...