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• Everything you need to know about the new Cloudera Data Platform: vision, migration and roadmap

  The vendor has laid out its plans for a new combined data platform, which promises to bring together the best features of CDH and HDP

• Movers and shakers: Hadoop creator Doug Cutting, Priti Ambani of The Next Billion and Frazer Scott of Microsoft

  Plus: Startup weekend in Christchurch and accolade for Fonterra scientists
  

• Qrious to launch big data platform based on Cloudera technology

  This is an opportunity to be a game changer for New Zealand businesses that will help accelerate their data-driven journey, says Qrious CEO David Leach.
  

• In Pictures: How 7 companies bring power to Hadoop Big Data applications

  Intel and Cloudera joined forces just a year ago to accelerate enterprise Hadoop adoption. Here’s how seven companies have taken advantage of new technology to drive Big Data.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, June 17

  Baseball gets a hacking scandal... Airbus plans Internet satellites... European court holds site liable for comments... and more tech news.

• Salesforce doubles down on big data with new analytics tool

  All the data "lakes" in the world won't amount to much if you can't figure out what they mean for your business. With that in mind, Salesforce on Thursday unveiled Salesforce Wave for Big Data, a new tool designed to help business users make sense of their information stores using the Salesforce Analytics Cloud.

• Hadoop platform, apps represent $1 trillion opportunity

  Over the past few years, Hadoop and big data have exploded onto the tech landscape, garnering attention on par with cloud and mobile. But that may all be about to change, says Mike Olson, co-founder, chairman and CSO of Hadoop distribution vendor Cloudera.

• Gazzang buy gives end-to-end encryption for Cloudera Hadoop

  Cloudera will incorporate technology from its acquisition of encryption software provider Gazzang into Apache Hadoop so that industries with stringent security regulations can use the big-data processing platform.

• Intel makes 'significant' investment in Hadoop company Cloudera

  Intel is investing in distributed computing software company, Cloudera, as it looks to tune more software to its x86 processors.

• Cloudera launches in-memory analyzer for Hadoop

  Hadoop distributor Cloudera has released a commercial edition of the Apache Spark program, which analyzes data in real time from within Cloudera's Hadoop environments.

• Cloudera positions Hadoop as an enterprise data hub

  Taking note of how customers have been working with its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has expanded the scope of its software so that it can serve as a hub for all of an organization's data, not just data undergoing Hadoop MapReduce analysis.

• How to close the big data skills gap by training your IT staff

  Research firms paint a dire picture of a massive big data skills gap that will get worse over time. But companies like Persado, which uses big data to help marketers optimize their messages, are finding success training their existing staff in the new big data technologies.