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Welcome, Oracle. Seriously.
. Welcome to the most exciting and important enterprise software market in the last three decades. And congratulations on your first Hadoop appliance. Despite your original skepticism, putting real...
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Calendar heatmap –“Growing a company”
Data visualization is worth a thousands words. 1.) 2008, 10+ engineers in a small development company doing Hadoop projects. 2.) 2009, November we founded Datameer and raised series A. 3.) 2010,...
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How I hacked California’s largest healthcare provider – by mistake.
BTW, names have been omitted on advice of our lawyers. It all started when I tried to sign up my then fiancé for a health care plan. After creating the account, the “request a quote” form was long,...
View ArticleWelcome Microsoft
Hadoop is unique from other open source projects beyond just its technology. Hadoop is the first open source technology that created a big market. Unlike past open source successes such as Linux and...
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Introducing Datameer 2.0 – Data Analytics, Democratized
Boy, what a ride! I remember my first post to the Nutch (the birth place of Hadoop) mailing list in 2003 was “Hi! I believe Information should be free! How can I help?” We had long email conversations...
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How Big Data Helps to Find Rogue Traders
After the problems in the financial services industry and the billions invested in “rescuing” some of the banks, you would think folks would have already figured it out. Well, it’s obviously not an...
View ArticleBursting the Big Data Bubble
Below is an article I originally wrote for ZDNet’s Big On Data blog, republished here with permission. Special thanks to Andrew Brust (@AndrewBrust)! We’re in the middle of a Big Data and Hadoop hype...
View ArticleTime 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...
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Big 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...
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Funding 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,...
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A 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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