Billion Dollar Unicorns: Hortonworks Needs To Deliver Results

A Markets and Markets report on Hadoop estimates the total Hadoop market to grow 55% annually to be worth $13.95 billion by 2017. Billion Dollar Unicorn club member Hortonworks is one successful player in this rapidly growing Hadoop market.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Shaun Connolly, VP of Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: The other thing that is vertical specific and what lots of companies are working on is the heuristics of these analytics. The applications you get out of the big data analytics depend on what you search for, what heuristics you build your models around, and what kind of learning algorithms are on it.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Shaun Connolly, VP of Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What have you seen in the last five years that are major trends in this space? What are the drivers currently, and what do you foresee will be the drivers in the next two to five years? Shaun Conolly: I was in the application platform business with JBoss and Red Hat. I was

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Shaun Connolly, VP of Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Are there other use cases? Shaun Connolly: Let me tell you about the healthcare use case. What it does is show the sensor data use case well. In the healthcare industry we work with healthcare providers as well as university hospitals – the University of California Irvine Medical Center is one example. In

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Shaun Connolly, VP of Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What have you had to do technically to service this use case? Shan Connolly: In many cases, the enterprise Hadoop platform acts as the landing ground for all those different sources of data. In many cases, if the information is already in existing systems that are powering the business, those systems are not

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Shaun Connolly, VP of Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: If you were to distinguish between what is free and what is paid in the product part, can you give some examples of capabilities that are paid? Shaun Connolly: Whether we are doing operational tooling, configuration, provisioning and management, those capabilities manifest in an open source project called Apache Ambari, which is an

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Shaun Connolly, VP of Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks (Part 1)

Shaun Connolly is the vice president of corporate strategy at Hortonworks, a company with extensive experience in the application of Apache Hadoop, enabling companies to satisfy their big data needs through their Hortonworks Data Platform. In this interview, Shaun describes the services Hortonworks offers to clients, which include software support and consulting services. Shaun has

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