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• Qrious launches big data platform Qonnect: 'It's about creating smarter organisations'

  "The industry talks about making data more accessible. This is the foundation piece that makes it possible," says Qrious CEO David Leach.

• Qrious to become Cloudera MSP for New Zealand

  Qrious - the big data and analytics software business set up in 2014 by Spark NZ - has become the first managed service provider in New Zealand for global data management and analytics software company, Cloudera, which offers software built on the open source Hadoop, and which went public on the New York Stock Exchange last week.

• Cloudera: Riding an IoT-driven big data wave

  Cloudera, which provides a distribution of Apache Hadoop and associated services, says it is doubling business annually on the back of growth in the use of Hadoop to analyse the massive volumes of data being generated by connected ‘things’ of all kinds.

• 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.

• Big Data demand fails to trigger Hadoop adoption

  "Despite continuing enthusiasm for the big data phenomenon, demand for Hadoop specifically is not accelerating."

• Hortonworks brings Hadoop 2.0 to Windows

  The Hadoop specialist has announced the general availability of Hortonworks Data Platform 2.0 for Windows, which is designed to bring the power of Hadoop 2.0's YARN-based architecture to Windows data centers.

• Big Data Application Framework Gets Update, SQL Interface

  Open source big data application platform specialist Concurrent has released a new version of the Cascading application framework and simultaneously released Cascading Lingual 1.0, an ANSI SQL interface for Hadoop.

• Microsoft's Big Data Service Available After a Year in Preview

  After a year of in-the-field testing, the Windows Azure HDInsight Service, which allows customers to spin up Hadoop clusters in the cloud, gets the green light for release into general availability.

• Etsy gets crafty with big data

  Handmade marketplace Etsy has grown to 800,000 sellers and 40+ million monthly visitors. All that activity generates enormous quantities of data, which Etsy uses to drive site improvements.

• IBM security tool can catch insider threats, fraud

  IBM today rolled out a tool it says can cull massive terabytes of data, including email -- to help customers detect external attacks aimed at stealing sensitive information or insider threats that might reveal corporate secrets.

• Tech salaries jump 5.3%, bonuses flat

  Average salaries for tech pros climbed 5.3% to $85,619 last year, up from $81,327 in 2011. It's the largest salary jump in more than a decade, according to career site Dice.

• How to Secure Big Data in Hadoop

  The promise of big data is enormous, but it can also become an albatross around your neck if you don't make security of both your data and your infrastructure a key part of your big data project from the beginning. Here are some steps you can take to avoid big data pitfalls.

• Microsoft Brings Big Data to Windows

  Microsoft, with the help of partner Hortonworks, brings Hadoop to Windows and stakes its claim as a vendor of big data technologies with new cloud-based and on-premises offerings.

• Cloudera intros Hadoop management tools

  Startup Cloudera is introducing a set of applications on Friday for working with Hadoop, the open-source framework for large-scale data processing and analysis.