10 Amazing Things to Do With a Hadoop-Based Data Lake

Cross posted from The Pivotal POV Blog.

The following is a summary of a talk I gave at Strata NY that is proving popular among a lot of people who are still trying to understand use cases for Apache Hadoop® and big data.  In this talk, I introduce the concept of a Big Data Lake, which utilizes Apache Hadoop® as storage, and powerful open source and Pivotal technologies. Here are 10 amazing things companies can do with such a big data lake, ordered according to increasing impact on the business.

Announcing the New Version of GemFire XD and SQLFire: Pivotal GemFire XD 1.3

Cross posted from my blog at Pivotal POV…

 

 

The newest versions of SQLFire and GemFire XD are one and the same: Pivotal GemFire XD version 1.3. What were previously two separate products are now merged, so current licensees of either product are entitled to upgrade to the new version.