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Cloudera and Carahsoft Webinar: Big Data Success in Government 19 Jan 2012

January 18, 2012 By bobgourley

Thursday January 19, 2012 Carahsoft and Cloudera are presenting a webinar on Big Data in the federal space.

The following is from their announcement site:

Join us as we describe big data technologies including Apache Hadoop and how government organizations have been successfully deploying these technologies. We will discuss the fundamentals of Hadoop and how it fits into government initiatives.

In this live webcast, Bob Gourley, Editor of CTOvision.com and CTO of Crucial Point LLC, and Omer Trajman, Vice President of Customer Solutions at Cloudera, will review the top federal mission needs for big data and go into detail on several examples of successful deployments, including:

Search services from USA Search

Cloud-based financial management at GCE Federal

Bioinformatics research at PNNL

Use of Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) in cyber security at SherpaSurfing

Sign up now, or click here to register for future access to the archived recording.

Please sign up today! http://www.carahsoft.com/event-detail/1327/cloudera/

Splunk is Going Public

January 15, 2012 By bobgourley

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Big Data solutions company Splunk has just filed to go public and is looking to raise $125 million in IPO. Splunk, which will list under the symbol SPLK, collects, indexes and harnesses all the fast moving machine data generated by enterprise applications and devices. It makes this data, which can be hundreds of terabytes a day for large enterprises, easy to break down and query so that even non-technical users can solve Big Data problems, reducing the IT bottleneck. It can also be used to manage and monitor distributed computing, Platform-as-a-Service infrastructure, and Software-as-a-Service. Splunk Enterprise for Hadoop will soon be available, allowing the software to integrate with with Apache Hadoop, the leading open-source Big Data platform.

Splunk has over 3,300 customers, including most of the Fortune 100. Credit Suisse, Bank Of America, Comcast, Salesforce, Zynga, LinkedIn, T-Mobile, Swisscom, Shutterfly, Heroku and the US Departments of Labor and Energy are all clients. Splunk generates revenue based off the amount of data its clients want to index, and in the 2009, 2010, and 2011 fiscal years generated $18.2 million, $35 million and $66.2 million in revenue. On top of this rapid growth, Splunk has also raised $40 million in venture capital.