Cloudera Day in DC

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Carahsoft hosted a Cloudera Day in the DC area on 26 January 2012. Cloudera executives speaking at the event included their CEO Mike Olson, CTO Amr Awadallah, VP of Product Charles Zedlewski, VP of Customer Solutions Omer Trajman, and Cloudera's Architect Doug Cutting. Doug is known as the founder of many successful open source projects including Lucene, Nutch, and Hadoop. The event was heavily attended by government and private sector … [Read more...]

Come to the DC Hadoop Users Group meeting 25 Jan!!

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Join the local DC community at a Hadoop Users Group meeting on Wed, Jan 25th from 6-9pm at The National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, 13th floor, Washington, DC.  The event will feature Doug Cutting and Todd Lipcon each discussing a variety of Hadoop technical capabilities, as well as taking Q & A from the audience. Doug is the creator of numerous successful open source projects, including Lucene, Nutch and the co-creator of Apache Hadoop … [Read more...]

The Quickest Guide to Hadoop You’ll Ever Read

What is Hadoop? Hadoop is a collection of software originally spawned from the Apache Nutch project (Read a little more of its history HERE that is now its own project within the Apache Foundation. Its goal is to provide a highly redundant, self-repairing cloud of computers that can fail out and still be robust, fast, and efficient. To accomplish this goal, it leverages several pieces of software at its most basic installation (there are other … [Read more...]

Enterprise Technology Developments in 2010 and 2011

Happy New Year!  Best wishes for your 2011. From a CTO perspective 2010 has been an incredibly busy year, and odds are the pace will only accelerate. We began 2010 with the nation still dealing with the Christmas Day 2009  terror attack, which was a reminder that conniving enemies still seek ways to attack and we must always do what we can to disrupt their plans. One of the things the civilized world can do to stop these attacks is make better use of … [Read more...]

Background on Lucene, Nutch and Hadoop

Doug Cutting is the creator of Lucene, Nutch and Hadoop. Doug and these projects are increasingly being mentioned in enterprise environments. So with this post I'll provide a bit more of context on each. Doug Cutting has earned a reputation as an innovative, community-supporting developer.  He is on the board of directors of the Apache Software Foundation and is now its Chairman. He is the Architect at Cloudera, the firm famous for delivering an end to … [Read more...]