Blogs

Organizations that are majorly data driven and process large datasets are increasingly adopting Apache Hadoop as a potential tool. This is because of its ability to process, store and manage vast amounts of structured, unstructured or semi-structured data. Basically, Hadoop is a distributed data storage and processing platform with three core components that are the HDFS distributed file system, the MapReduce distributed processing engine running on top and the YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator).

The Internet of Things (IoT) has got the entire world excited. A connected ecosystem is throwing up interesting opportunities. Possibly, this is the first time non-living things can communicate with us and with each other. Kind of a fairy tale come true! No wonder then that it heads the Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging technologies. Even at the recently concluded CeBIT 2015 and Hannover Messe in Germany, IoT took center stage.

e-Zest, a global IT company providing Big Data, Analytics, BI and reporting solutions, is now a Hortonworks Hadoop Partner. This partnership enables e-Zest to promote and support Hadoop and strengthens our capabilities in delivering Big Data technology solutions.

Microsoft misses the cloud forecast under Ballmer

Big change coming in the enterprise application ecosystem