Red Hat's big sale, disappointing exits of Hadoop-based startups and Pivotal show how public clouds like AWS affect business models of open source-focused firms
TL;DR: If the cloud didn't eat Hadoop Inc., Pivotal and Red Hat, what explains their diminished prospects?
Hortonworks and Cloudera announce all-stock merger valuing the new company at $5.2B; the two companies helped commercialize Hadoop open-source big data software
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Cask Data, a startup that builds solutions to run big data analytics services based on Hadoop, joins Google Cloud; terms not disclosed; Cask had raised $40M
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Hadoop big data startup MapR raises $56M led by Lightspeed, plans to expand its global presence with a focus on Australia, Japan, South Korea
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Hadoop vendor MapR raises $50M round led by Future Fund, Australia's sovereign wealth fund
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Google's Cloud Dataproc service, a fully managed tool based on the Hadoop and Spark open source big data software, comes out of beta
Google launches Cloud Dataproc service out of beta — Google today announced that its Cloud Dataproc service — a fully managed tool based on the Hadoop …
Hortonworks introduces DataFlow, acquires Apache NiFi-backer Onyara
Hortonworks is betting big on Apache NiFi, acquiring Onyara, the commercial entity behind it, and releasing DataFlow, a separate subscription alongside the Hadoop-based Hortonworks Data Platform.
Hadoop-based analytics platform Datameer raises $40M Series E, led by Singapore investment firm ST Telemedia
Datameer Bags $40M Round Led By Singapore Investment Firm — Datameer, the big data analytics company built on Hadoop, announced a $40 million Series E round today led by ST Telemedia …
Hortonworks acquires SequenceIQ for rapid Hadoop deployment tools, plans to donate tech to Apache Software Foundation after integration
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Microsoft debuts its Azure Machine Learning service with support for Python, R languages and a preview of its Hadoop-based HDInsight tool that runs on Linux
Microsoft embraces Python, Linux in new big data tools — Continuing its quest to make Microsoft Azure comfy for the non-Windows world …