I am excited to share with you today that starting Monday I will be joining the Big Data team at Intel. Yes, Intel. While not traditionally known for its software offerings, Intel has recently entered the Big Data space by introducing their own, 100% open source Hadoop distribution with unique security and monitoring features. ...
Over eight months ago, I joined Intel to work on their next-generation data analytics platform. In large, my decision was based on Intel’s desire to address the “voodoo magic” in Big Data: the complexities that require deep technical skills which are preventing domain experts from gaining access to large volumes of data. The idea was that by leveraging the distributed data processing capabilities of Apache Hadoop, and combining them with Intel’s breadth of infrastructure experience, we could make Big Data analytics more accessible and therefore more prevalent. ...