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"When there’s an elephant in the room introduce him" -Randy Paush It is common that when speaking about Big Data two major assumptions often take place: One : Hadoop comes to our minds right by its side, and many times are even considered synonyms, which they are not. While Big Data is the boilerplate concept that refers to the process of handling enormous amounts of data coming in different forms  (structured and unstructured), independent of the use use of a particular technology or tool, Hadoop is in fact, a specific open source technology for dealing with these sort of voluminous data sets. But before we continue, and as a mind refresher, let’s remind ourselves what is Hadoop with their own definition: The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering ...

As mentioned right at the end of my Look Back Into 2017 And Forward To 2018 post, I did start this year looking forward for an exciting 2018 and, well, it seems my dream has coming true. Right in January, the BBBT group, which I’m proudly part of, hosted a briefing with visual analytics solution ZoomData , one of what I like to call new generation analytics solutions. As usual, this briefing was a great opportunity to know what the company is and what its up to, in the present and for the future. So, here is a brief report on what happened during this insightful encounter with Zoomdata and my fellow BBBT members. About Zoomdata Innovative company Zoomdata develops what they describe as: “The world’s fastest visual analytics solution for big and streaming data. Using patented data sharpening and micro-query technologies, Zoomdata empowers business users to visually consume data in seconds, even across tens of billions of rows of data.” According to the software provid...

I have to say that I attended this year’s Cloudera analyst event in San Francisco with a mix of excitement, expectation and a grain of salt also. My excitement and expectation were fuelled with all that has been said about Cloudera and its close competitors in the last couple of years, and also by the fact that I am currently focusing my own research on big data and “New Data Platforms” . Moreover, when it comes to events hosted by vendors, I always recommend taking its statements with a grain of salt, because logically the information might be biased. However, in the end, the event resulted in an enriching learning experience, full of surprises and discoveries. I learnt a lot about a company that is certainly collaborating big time in the transformation of the enterprise software industry. The event certainly fulfilled many of my “want-to-know-more” expectations about Cloudera and its offering stack; the path the company has taken; and their view of the enterprise data mana...