Merv Adrian

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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 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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