Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend
Time. It’s the most precious thing we have, yet every day we waste too many hours trying to make immature technology work for us. Three years ago, we were a small team of friends who had worked...
View ArticleBig Data – Crossing the Chasm in 2013!
It’s that time of year, when everyone breaks out their crystal ball. While I’ve never been one to follow the herd, this year, I couldn’t resist. We think 2013 is the year that Big Data will cross the...
View Article2 Initial Validations To Our 2013 Prediction
What a week. In December, I wrote why we believe 2013 will be the year that “Big Data” crosses the chasm from the tech-savvy early adopters into the more mainstream business audience. This week we’re...
View ArticleIntroducing Datameer 3.0
I’ve been through these technology adoption cycles before. I used to work on JBOSS; I worked in the search engine space when it was hot. At first, developers (like me) love their shiny new...
View ArticleHadoop Community, Let’s Save The Elephants
**This post originally appeared on Stefan’s CEO blog** I love the yellow elephant logo for Hadoop, and I know the rest of the Hadoop community loves it too. But I’m not sure the community realizes the...
View ArticleFunding News & Year in Review
Somehow another year has gone by and it again managed to be crazier than the last. Today I’m excited to share with you all some of our biggest news of the year, that we’ve closed a $19 million round in...
View ArticleIntroducing Datameer 4.0: The Flip Side to Big Data
**This post originally appeared on Stefan’s blog** Some people look at data and see integers, booleans and strings. When I look at data, I always wonder what story is behind it. In the past few years,...
View ArticleA Hadoop Community Success: Elephant Orphanage Update
**This post originally appeared on Stefan’s CEO blog** A year ago we announced that we were donating 100 percent of our proceeds from our Datameer Charity Edition for the month of November to help...
View ArticleTime to Celebrate the The Next Stage of Our Journey
A lot goes into creating a company and a lot more goes into creating a company that endures. There are long days and even longer nights, hiccups along the way, and a sense of trust that can last a...
View ArticleWelcome, Microsoft!
It’s exciting collaborating with a company that established one of the most well known industry standards in software. Microsoft Excel has transformed the way people work with basic number crunching...
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