Analyze HVAC Machine and Sensor Data

11.14.17

Using Spark in the Cloud with Hortonworks & Microsoft

Today organizations produce more data than ever and are continuously looking for solutions that allow them to gain deep insight into their business and monetize the data collected from multiple sources. Apache Spark helps you improve your business insights by providing a highly-scalable and interactive environment for analyzing data. Microsoft has worked with Hortonworks to…

10.10.17

Top 5 Strategies in Retail Data Analytics

9.7.17

How to disrupt your market: a guide to industry transformation, tailored to you.

8.15.17

Streamline Apache Hadoop Operations with Apache Ambari and SmartSense

Apache Ambari 2.5 helps customers simplify the experience for provisioning, managing, monitoring, securing and troubleshooting Hadoop deployments. Find out how the combination of Ambari and SmartSense delivers a path to success to help IT get Hadoop up and running effectively. The end result - you get the full business impact management and benefits of Big…

8.9.17

Built-in Cloud Security for Big Data Workloads – Live Demo & Flex-Support Options

Today enterprises are moving their data lakes to the cloud to help them execute faster, increase productivity, and drive innovation while leveraging the scale and flexibility of the cloud. However, such gains come with robust Authentication, Authorization and Audit (“AAA”) requirements needed for these workloads. In this interactive webinar: Learn how to get consistent security…

7.21.17

Join the Big Data Revolution! (Apply Inside)

Last Saturday, the Financial Times published an article titled, “BP looks to big data to help weather weak oil price” which explained why BP is expanding their data storage from one petabyte to six petabytes. It almost seems counter-intuitive, especially in an age of increased competition and renewable energies. Yet BP, along with the rest…

7.20.17

What Does Hortonworks SmartSense Mean To You?

Here at Hortonworks, we help big data projects be as successful as possible.  Part of that success is based on Hortonworks SmartSense. SmartSense provides a collection of tools and services to proactively prevent common cluster problems. With SmartSense customers can quickly capture the diagnostic information required to resolve issues. AND, it generates proactive recommendations that…

7.19.17

Doing Nothing About Cyber Security Will Cost You Everything

With every swipe of a credit card, every social media interaction, and every opened email advertisement, businesses are continuously trying to gain a single view of customers. Along with this mountain of data comes a lot of risk. Cyber crime has reached an all-time high – it is more brazen, and much more sophisticated. Companies…

Hortonworks Announces Management Transitions to Support Growth Strategy and Drive Operational Excellence

Chief Financial Officer Scott Davidson to Assume Additional Responsibilities as Chief Operating Officer  Veteran Sales Executive Alan Fudge Joins as Chief Revenue Officer  Scott Reasoner Promoted to Chief Accounting Officer Rajnish Verma Steps Down as President and Chief Operating Officer Company Announces Second Quarter 2017 Revenue Range   SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 18, 2017 -- Hortonworks, Inc.® (NASDAQ: HDP)…

7.18.17

How Telecommunications Companies Answer the Call for Innovation

Usually, customer demand prompts the need for innovation. If enough people need something, companies adapt to meet the requests of their consumers. Today, the development and evolution of mobility and telecommunications have outpaced our ability to create such a demand. Data is Like the Back of Your Hand Our data knows us more than we…

7.17.17

Stop Wasting Your Ad Money!

Famed businessman John Wanamaker once remarked, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” The digital advertising industry is rapidly evolving. Hortonworks customers are leveraging their structured and unstructured data to generate real insights into their customers and their customer’s behavior. From trends, to patterns, to…

7.14.17

Data Is Capital – Let’s Make It Rain

On Tuesday I blogged about Pinsight Media’s DataWorks Summit keynote. Pinsight leverages Hortonworks to ingest over 60 terabytes of data coming from 65 million devices across multiple mobile network operators. This network-level data provides right-time advertising to consumers. What’s most interesting about Pinsight’s use case is that the data is not their own, yet they…

7.13.17

Digitizing the Mailbox in the Age of Mobile Advertising

The amount of waste in time, costs, and resources to send print advertisements to consumers forced a change to digitize the process. Despite tremendous efforts in modernizing the necessary business practice, some of the challenges remain. Being able to target the right customer, with the right ad, at the right time is every company’s mission…

7.13.17

Secure, Native Visual Analytics Made Easier with Apache Ranger

Dale Kim, Sr. Director, Products/Solutions, Arcadia Data   Implementing data security controls can be hard, so it is up to technology vendors to work together to make security as simple as possible. This is especially true of big data environments where there are many pieces to integrate. When it comes to working with the Hortonworks…