Do You Hadoop?
Posted by:Steve | Fri 01 July 2011
Terabytes of data? Petabytes? For many organisations "Big Data" is both an opportunity and a curse. From Yahoo and Twitter to The New York Times, companies are increasingly adopting the Hadoop MapReduce framework to transform strategic decision-making and uncover unique business opportunities hidden in vast amounts of data.
Speaking about the recently announced DMExpress Hadoop Edition in an interview with IT Business Edge Network, Josh Rogers Lead Strategist for Syncsort Inc. said,
"We're proposing you can use DMX on top of Hadoop to both accelerate the framework and allow people to use a graphical user interface to build MapReduce jobs."
He also added Syncsort have been,
"..able to demonstrate from a performance perspective a 2X throughput increase based on the DMX Hadoop edition."
Read more in the full interview at IT Business Edge >>
DMExpress Hadoop Edition is initially available as part of a limited beta program, with expected general availability later in 2011. Read More >>
What Is Hadoop?
Apache Hadoop is a new way for enterprises to store and analyze data using an open-source software framework. It allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using a simple programming model, and is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines and petabytes of data. Read More >>
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