What an incredible time we had at Strata + Hadoop World NYC this past week. There were thousands of people in attendance and over 170 sponsors and exhibitors. The Pepperdata team was glad to be there for what is clearly becoming one of the biggest Hadoop and Big Data conferences.... read more →
Oct 02
Sep 30
This week, we were thrilled to announce our latest feature: comprehensive chargeback reporting. Chargeback reporting allows organizations to view the costs of using shared cluster resources — like memory or CPU — over a specified period of time. Our new feature is unique in the Hadoop marketplace: we aren’t limited... read more →
Sep 28
The Pepperdata team has been working with Hadoop since its earliest days, and we’ve already seen it grow through two significant phases of maturity, defined by how companies are using it and what tools the ecosystem has provided. We’ve recently started to see another set of changes that make it... read more →
Sep 14
Storage, processing, analytics….all of these are reasons why organizations move to Hadoop for their big data needs. The use cases are diverse and the landscape is always changing. Yet we have found there is actually quite a bit of consistency in terms of the challenges customers face. One challenge is... read more →
Sep 01
Fun Fact: What do Uber, NBC Universal, and the US Department of Energy all have in common? Well, two things actually: they are all using data in new and innovative ways, and they will all be speaking at the upcoming Big Data Innovation summit in Boston September 9th and 10th. Pepperdata... read more →
Aug 27
Different industry verticals have seen vastly different adoption rates of big data technologies such as Hadoop and Spark. The healthcare industry, in particular, has seen tremendous interest in big data platforms, but also challenges in the deployment of such technologies. One survey of healthcare organizations found that a majority of... read more →
Aug 12
There was an interesting question on Slashdot this week regarding capacity planning and performance management. The reader makes a good point - in the old days of mainframes and static data, capacity planning was pretty straightforward because you didn’t have multiple technologies, platforms, and data types to contend with. Back... read more →
Aug 04
We’re excited to announce that Pepperdata has been selected as one of the Channel Company’s CRN Emerging Vendors for 2015! This annual list highlights up-and-coming technology companies that are at the forefront of developing innovative products and establishing channel leadership. We've already been making some waves this year, though: Pepperdata... read more →
Jul 07
Check out our webinar: Real-time cluster optimization for any Big Data environment, on July 14th at 11:00am PDT. Ever had Hadoop jobs run too slowly (perhaps missing critical deadlines)? Ever tried to debug resource contention issues without the benefit of job or user-level visibility? Ever wished you could easily run... read more →
Jun 08
With less than 24 hours to go until the start of Hadoop Summit San Jose, the Pepperdata team is getting ready for 3 days filled with announcements, technical sessions, and meetings with customers and partners. From having a quick look at the conference agenda online, it's evident that the topics... read more →