Big Data is rapidly changing our world, and the insurance industry is no exception. Leveraging and analyzing data leads to actionable insights that insurance companies use to help mitigate risks to prevent disasters. The availability of new data sources has created new opportunities to optimize risk, reduce exposure and create behavior based products. Insurance companies […]

The Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) has been a great custodian of enterprise data, and the foundation for business critical analytics for many years. The growing volumes of business data combined with recent advances in Big Data technology are introducing a market inflection point where enterprise legacy EDWs can no longer effectively address the scale, diversity, […]

Originally published by DataQuest It would not be an over statement to say that widespread cyber attacks crippling global businesses has become the new normal. The speed and scale of the recent ransomware attacks and cyber-security breaches have taught us one important lesson. Threat detection and mitigation will be the key to SOC (security operations […]

Bad data in any organization has damaging consequences, and in the housing market, the families that become affected only inflames concerns. Without the proper data at the right time, and the ability to effectively govern the data coming in, the process of ensuring the right candidates are able to live in the home of their […]

With today’s new rapid pace, speed to market is a huge factor for any business. The faster a company can gain insights from their data, the better they can serve their customers. If changes aren’t made quickly enough, there’s a significant risk of losing customers and market share. One example of gaining faster insights from […]

Economic progress can seem like a two-edged sword – we relish the opportunities for career and lifestyle choices offered by our expanding cities, but urban transportation woes can sometimes make us wonder if it’s all worth it. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) recently celebrated its 50th anniversary this year – and there is […]

The rate of change in data management is astonishing.  In just a few years we have seen the emergence of big data turn into a data lake and then we pushed these concepts to the edge where we capture our data. Along the way, the traditional paradigm of building a monolithic store to drive analytics […]

This is the second post in the Engineering @ Hortonworks blog series that explores how we in Hortonworks Engineering build, test and release new versions of our platforms. In this post, we deep dive into something that we are extremely excited about – Running a container cloud on YARN! We have been using this next-generation […]

One of the most exciting new features of HDP 2.6 from Hortonworks was the general availability of Apache Hive with LLAP. If you missed DataWorks Summit you’ll want to look at some of the great LLAP experiences our users shared, including Geisinger who found that Hive LLAP outperforms their traditional EDW for most of their […]

Our customers increasingly leverage Data Science, and Machine Learning to solve complex predictive analytics problem. A few examples of these problems are churn prediction, predictive maintenance, image classification, and entity matching. While everyone wants to predict the future, truly leveraging Data Science for Predictive Analytics remains the domain of a select few. To expand the […]

With the increases in data volumes, explosion in number of devices and sophistication of attackers, current cybersecurity tools are challenged processing the millions of events and providing insights fast enough. Cybersecurity teams spend hours analyzing threat events by going from one tool to the next.  We are pleased to announce the general availability of Hortonworks […]

Lloyds Banking Group has been awarded this year’s data accolade for its Digital Analytics System Delivery (DASD) project. The goal was to build a data environment that could be used to derive predictive models for fraud detection. Lloyds Banking Group partnered with Hortonworks to create a data analytics platform and integrated a data science toolkit […]

This is the introductory post in a blog series that explores how we in Hortonworks Engineering build, test and release new versions of our platforms. In this post, we introduce the basic themes and set context for deeper discussions in subsequent blogs. We at Hortonworks are very proud of the work we do. Along with […]

Overview As more and more workloads are being brought onto modern hardware in the cloud, it’s important for us to understand how to pick the best databases that can leverage the best hardware. Amazon has introduced instances with directly attached SSD (Solid state drive). Both Apache HBase and Apache Cassandra are popular key-value databases. In […]

Guest authored by Ross Porter, Director Presales Systems Engineering EMEA, DellEMC One of the hottest topics for both DellEMC and Hortonworks today is how to protect big data repositories, data lakes, from the emerging breed of cyber-attacks. We sat down to discuss this topic to address some of the common questions we’ve faced, and would […]