Shaun Bierweiler, president of Cloudera's government solutions business, said the company's merger with Hortonworks enabled the former to leverage a comprehensive data platform to address customer needs across all cloud environments and data types.

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Scott Gnau, a more than two-decade data management industry veteran, has joined information technology firm InterSystems as vice president of data platforms.

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Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of U.S. public sector at Cloudera, has said the merger of Cloudera and Hortonworks forms a combined company that would deliver an enterprise data cloud platform designed to help clients “derive data intelligence from the edge to AI.“ “This capability will have an immediate and long-lasting impact on the public sector as agencies are able to capture data-in-motion from sensors, IoT or other devices, bring it through an enterprise open-source data platform, and leverage AI and machine learning capabilities to provide valuable insights and actionable intelligence,“ Bierweiler wrote in a LinkedIn article published Monday.

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Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of U.S. public sector at Hortonworks, has predicted the federal government will implement this year a new policy to manage data “at the edge.“ “Capturing data at the edge and being able to get [artificial intelligence and machine learning] faster with real-time capabilities and security is something all agencies would love […] More

  Shaun Bierweiler, president of Hortonworks“™ federal business, told Emergency Management in an interview published Wednesday that developers have come up with enterprise open source tools such as Hadoop and Apache NiFi designed to process and generate actionable intelligence from data. “The beauty of using an enterprise open source platform in a disaster response setting […] More

Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of Hortonworks‘ U.S. public sector business, said in an interview published Thursday on CIO Dive that organizations would experience the advantages of a data lake if they determine the usefulness of information stored in the system. “At a very high level, a data lake is simply a storage component where you can put […] More

IBM, Hortonworks and Red Hat have launched a new initiative designed to help users field and run big data workloads in hybrid cloud environments. The companies will leverage IBM Cloud Private for Data, Hortwonworks DataPlane, HortonWorks Data Flow and Hortonworks Data Platform with the Red Hat OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes-based container offering to allow users to deploy containerized workloads […] More

Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of Hortonworks‘ U.S. public sector business, has said he observed agencies tapping into internet-of-things platforms to store, process and compute data from multiple sources, MeriTalk reported Tuesday. He noted the Census Bureau has implemented handheld devices to support its digital information gathering process and the General Services Administration has adopted sensors to collect information about the […] More

The Defense Department“™s Joint Improvised Threat Defeat Organization has collaborated with Hortonworks to implement an enterprise information technology platform equipped with the Hadoop data management software and other open-source tools, Federal News Radio reported Friday. The report noted the use of such open-source tools has helped JIDO to focus more on the deployment of mission capabilities to warfighters […] More

Hortonworks and PSSC Labs have teamed up to develop a high-performance computing system for use in conjunction with Hortonworks Cybersecurity Platform. PSSC's CyberRax Cybersecurity Appliance is a turnkey platform that works to deliver cyber data with alert summaries, real-time processing and high-speed ingestion capabilities to users and supports 240 processor cores and 150 terabytes of data, the […] More

Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of U.S. public sector at Hortonworks, told Datanami in an interview published Tuesday about the advantage of adopting an open approach to technology development in the big data space. “When you think about integration points, and the various technologies and players coming to market, if you don“™t have an open approach and […] More

Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of U.S. public sector at Hortonworks, has said federal agencies seeking to modernize information technology infrastructure should leverage enterprise open source software platforms. Bierweiler wrote in a GCN guest piece published Tuesday that there are four advantages associated with the adoption of enterprise open source and one of those is choice. An […] More