Edd Dumbill

Edd Dumbill is program chair for the O'Reilly Strata Conference and the O'Reilly Open Source Convention.

What is Apache Hadoop?

What is Apache Hadoop?

A look at the components and functions of the Hadoop ecosystem.

by  | @edd  | +Edd Dumbill |  2 February 2012

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. But what does it do, and why do you need all its strangely-named friends, such as Oozie, Zookeeper and Flume?

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Microsoft's plan for Hadoop and big data

Microsoft's plan for Hadoop and big data

Hadoop is a central part of Microsoft's data strategy.

by  | @edd  | +Edd Dumbill | 25 January 2012

Strata conference chair Edd Dumbill takes a look at Microsoft's plans for big data. By embracing Hadoop, the company aims to keep Windows and Azure as a standards-friendly option for data developers.

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Big data market survey: Hadoop solutions

Big data market survey: Hadoop solutions

A survey of the Hadoop big data marketplace.

by  | @edd  | +Edd Dumbill | 19 January 2012

In this survey, Edd Dumbill explores the Hadoop-based big data solutions available on the market, contrasts the approaches of EMC Greenplum, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle and provides an overview of Hadoop distributions.

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What is big data?

What is big data?

An introduction to the big data landscape.

by  | @edd  | +Edd Dumbill | 11 January 2012

It's the hot trend in software right now, but what does big data mean, and how can you exploit it? Strata chair Edd Dumbill presents an introduction and orientation to the big data landscape.

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Five big data predictions for 2012

Five big data predictions for 2012

Edd Dumbill looks at the hot topics in data for the coming year.

by  | @edd  | +Edd Dumbill | 14 December 2011

The coming year of big data will bring developments in streaming data frameworks and data marketplaces, along with a maturation in the roles and processes of data science.

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Oracle's Big Data Appliance: what it means

Hadoop and R are the new industry standards

by  | @edd  | +Edd Dumbill |  3 October 2011

Today, Oracle announced their Big Data Appliance. It couldn't be a plainer validation of what's important in big data right now, or where the battle for technology dominance lies.

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