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• Forrester Lists Hortonworks as a Leader in Big Data Warehousing

  The Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) has had a great run for the past several decades. But as is the norm in technology, newcomers are ready to stake their claim in this business critical environment, as illustrated in Forrester’s newly released The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Warehouse, Q2 2017 report. Hortonworks delivers a viable open source […]

  June 21, 2017
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• Announcing the 2017 Data Hero Finalists, Americas

  In January we announced the Hortonworks Data Heroes initiative. It’s our way of recognizing the Data Visionaries, Data Scientists, and Data Architects transforming their businesses and organizations through Big Data. Hortonworks has over 1000 customers ranging across every industry. There are so many Big Data stories to be told: stories about transformation, cost reduction, and […]

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• Your Self-Driving Car – How Did It Get So Smart?

  Destination Autonomous The march towards autonomous vehicles continues to accelerate. While expert opinion differs on the specific timing and use cases that will emerge first, few deny that self-driving cars are in our future. Not surprisingly, when reviewing Big Data strategies with my automotive clients, discussions on data management strategies for autonomous driving research inevitably […]

  May 18, 2017
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• Parametric: Driving Alpha in the Financial Markets

  With the San Jose DataWorks Summit (June 13-15) just one month away, we’re busy finalizing the lineup of an impressive array of speakers and business use cases. This year our Enterprise Adoption Track will feature Scott Sovine, Director of Project and Data Management, and Amir Aliabadi, Data Architect, both at Parametric Portfolio Associates, LLC. Also present will be […]

  May 3, 2017
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• Securing Our Cars In A Connected World – Automotive Cyber Security Summit 2017

  This week I attended the 2017 Automotive Cyber Security Summit in Detroit with my colleague Mike Schiebel (General Manager, Cyber Security, Hortonworks). Together, we were speakers in a session entitled “Securing the Connected Car in a Connected World”. Here are highlights of what we presented: How Did We Get Here? A Historical Perspective As the […]

  April 6, 2017
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• The New Coin of the Realm – Data as Market Currency for Our Customers

  Last week we announced fourth quarter and full year 2016 results. Take a look at Rob Bearden’s previous 2016 Year in Review post for more from our CEO on all the great ecosystem, product and business momentum that Hortonworks delivered last year. My team focusses on our customer stories—sharing the real-world details on how Hortonworks […]

  February 16, 2017
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• “5 Minutes with…” video: Machine learning for the insurance industry

  Cindy Maike, our General Manager for Insurance, visited our London office recently and we managed to find time between her customer meetings to discuss the role and impact of machine learning. While Cindy is obviously focused on the insurance sector, this summary provides solid insight for anyone considering how to manage the technological and cultural […]

  February 1, 2017
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• Big Data Analytics At A Tipping Point

  Last year Hadoop celebrated it’s tenth birthday, young in the land of data technologies. But the growth in popularity of Apache Hadoop is not slowing down anytime soon. In fact, results from the 2016 Big Data Maturity Survey indicates 97% of respondents plan to do more big data initiatives in the next 3 months. The […]

  January 19, 2017
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