There is little doubt that Hadoop adoption is growing, and not just among Enterprise-sized organizations, but by small and medium sized businesses as well. In fact, the size of the organization (in terms of revenue and/or employee size which are the two criteria used to measure Enterprise vs. SMB) does... read more →
May
11
Mar
27
Pepperdata already gives you a granular view of everything happening across your Hadoop clusters, as we actively govern the use of CPU, memory, disk I/O, and network for every task, job, user, and group — all in real time. Now, there’s more: you can turn any trackable metric into an... read more →
Mar
22
Time is zipping by, and already Strata + Hadoop World is right around the corner! We’re excited to be sponsoring the San Jose, CA show this year, and look forward to chatting with you about our favorite topic: Hadoop performance. Our team of engineers, sales wizards, and marketeers will be... read more →
Jan
28
Hadoop, the distributed processing and storage platform whose creation was spearheaded a decade ago by my former Yahoo colleagues, Doug Cutting and Eric Baldeschwieler, is a watershed innovation. It credibly holds the promise to change everything: how we collect, store, and analyze data on a technical level, as well as... read more →
Dec
31
This was an exciting year for Pepperdata! We’ve crammed the past twelve months with growth and expansion on all fronts, from funding to product features to team size and more. So as we raise our glasses to toast in a bright new year, we want to acknowledge the milestones of... read more →
Dec
18
There are a number of estimates out there for how many organizations are currently using Hadoop. These estimates vary widely, and no one can put a hard figure to it. But there is little doubt that the number is growing as organizations of all sizes adopt this platform for large... read more →
Dec
02
We've long believed that, as more organizations begin using Hadoop in production to service different business groups, it would become necessary for them to accurately spread the cost of cluster resources across those users. In fact, this was the motivation behind our recently released new feature, Comprehensive Chargeback Reporting. Chargeback... read more →
Nov
18
If you’ve ever had to contend with bottlenecked Hadoop jobs or with missing a critical service-level agreement (SLA) because of sluggish runtimes, you understand the importance of having your Hadoop cluster perform predictably. This is the heart of what Pepperdata software is all about: ensuring quality of service (QoS) for... read more →
Nov
10
Last night Pepperdata hosted a meetup in San Francisco at our customer Upsight’s office. The subject of the evening focused on our customer’s specific issues that they were struggling with when they first implemented Hadoop. Upsight is a mobile analytics and marketing tools company. Their product offering necessitates real-time data... read more →
Oct
27
The Internet of Things has been one of those hot topics that started to be bandied about a few years back but was still to be seen if it would turn into anything tangible, and more than hype. However, over the past few years the incredible growth of devices such... read more →