March 4, 2019

How To Load Data Into Hadoop

In our last segment, we learned about Hadoop's various components and how they work together as a Big Data Management platform. The next key step to understand is how your team can load data into Hadoop. Many are under the…

Posted by: Ashley Huang

How to Improve BI Performance on Hadoop

I was late to the game when I unboxed my first iPhone in 2008. As a mechanical engineering student at the time, it wasn’t an easy decision to spend 2 months’ food budget on a “non-essential gadget”. Thankfully, it turned…

Posted by: Arnold Yeung

Hortonworks chooses AtScale as its standard for BI-on-Hadoop

We started AtScale because we believe that everyone should be able to use all data for all decisions. We believe that people should have unencumbered and secured access to information, work with data of all shapes, at lightning speed and…

Posted by: Dave Mariani

CDOs: They Are Not Who You Think They Are

Google the word “CDO” today and your search will mostly results return articles about the “Chief Digital Officer”. However, if you came to this blog, you’re probably looking for guidance on the other title this acronym refers to: “The Chief…

Posted by: Bruno Aziza

Big Data: The Unknown Unknowns

Industry leaders know that their challenges with data analytics are spread across 4 areas: confirmation (‘the things they know they know’); intuition (‘the things they don’t know they know’); inspection (‘the things they know they don’t know’); and revelation (‘the…

Posted by: Bruno Aziza

BI Tools: The Do’s and Don’t’s of Integrating Hadoop

Big data can translate to big wins for your company, but making it work means working smarter. Hadoop makes it simple to distribute storage and process very large data sets. Make Hadoop work for you even further by pairing it…

Posted by: Bruno Aziza

BI-‘in’-Hadoop is Dead

Congratulations! Your Hadoop cluster is up and running. Your data feeds work; your team knows how to manage the cluster, and expert users mine the data with Hive, Pig, Spark. But your executives aren’t satisfied. “Where is the business value?”…

Posted by: Thomas W. Dinsmore

API – Using AtScale’s Webhooks

Often times, customers approach me with questions around AtScale’s ability to integrate into the customer’s operational stack. Today, I want to highlight a component of AtScale’s Development Extensions called Webhooks. A webhook (also called a web callback or HTTP push…

Posted by: Vadim Gekhman

Announcing AtScale 6.5

Data Lake Intelligence with AtScale In my recent Data Lake 2.0 article, I described how the worlds of big data and cloud are coming together to reshape the concept of the data lake. The data lake is an important element…

Posted by: Joshua Klahr