Merv Adrian

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Open Source “Purity,” Hadoop, and Market Realities

by Merv Adrian  |  March 9, 2013  |  22 Comments

I don’t often do a pure opinion piece but I feel compelled to weigh in on a queston I’ve been asked several times since EMC released its Pivotal HD recently. The question is whether it is somehow inappropriate, even “evil,” for EMC to enter the market without having “enough” committers to open source Apache projects. [...]

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Hadoop 2013 – Part Four: Players

by Merv Adrian  |  March 8, 2013  |  1 Comment

The first three posts in this series talked about performance,  projects and platforms as key themes in what is beginning to feel like a  watershed year for Hadoop. All three are reflected in the surprising emergence of a number of new players on the scene, as well as some new offerings from additional ones, which I’ll cover in [...]

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Hadoop 2013 – Part Three: Platforms

by Merv Adrian  |  February 23, 2013  |  4 Comments

In the first two posts in this series, I talked about performance and projects as key themes in Hadoop’s watershed year. As it moves squarely into the mainstream, organizations making their first move to experiment will have to make a choice of platform. And – arguably for the first time in the early mainstreaming of an information [...]

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Hadoop 2013 – Part One: Performance

by Merv Adrian  |  February 16, 2013  |  11 Comments

It’s no surprise that we’ve been treated to many year-end lists and predictions for Hadoop (and everything else IT) in 2013. I’ve never been that much of a fan of those exercises, but I’ve been asked so much lately that I’ve succumbed. Herewith, the first of a series of posts on what I see as [...]

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Apache Hadoop 1.0 Doesn’t Clear Up Trunks and Branches Questions. Do Distributions?

by Merv Adrian  |  January 23, 2012  |  Comments Off

In early January 2012, the world of big data was treated to an interesting series of product releases, press announcements, and blog posts about Hadoop versions.  To begin with, we had the announcement of Apache version 1.0 at long last, in a press release. Although there were grumblings here and there in the twittersphere that [...]

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Hadoop Distributions And Kids’ Soccer

by Merv Adrian  |  July 19, 2011  |  4 Comments

The big players are moving in for a piece of the Big Data action. IBM, EMC, and NetApp have stepped up their messaging, in part to prevent startup upstarts like Cloudera from cornering the Apache Hadoop distribution market. They are all elbowing one another to get closest to “pure Apache” while still “adding value.” Numerous [...]

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