MINNEAPOLIS, MN – JULY 6, 2017 – phData, Inc., a Big Data consulting and managed services firm, is continuing its rapid growth with an expansion of its Indian subsidiary, phData Solutions Private Limited. As part of the expansion, phData has named Balbir Singh as Director of Indian Operations, further accelerating phData’s long term growth strategy […]
I was lucky enough to attend StrataEU 2017 and one of the sessions was Deploying and managing Hive, Spark, and Impala in the public cloud led by Philip Langdale, Eugene Fratkin, and Jennifer Wu. I assumed this was a Cloudera Director session which we have lots of experience with, but I decided to pop my […]
Last month marked my one year anniversary working at phData, and since a lot of my friends and future applicants have been asking me about my experience so far, I decided to write up a little blog post about it. My experience at phData can be summed up succinctly as different and constantly evolving. I […]
Andy Stadtler helped with this post Many of phData’s customers are heavy users of Cloudera Navigator. Cloudera Navigator provides metadata information to the user who can also audit all actions performed on data in the cluster. Per day one customer generates an average of 4GB Audit Data, which is stored by default in the mysql […]
phData co-founders Brock Noland and Mac Noland were featured in an article on Tech.MN, discussing the founding and rapid growth of the company. View the article here.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN – JANUARY 9, 2016 – phData, the global leader in Big Data consulting and managed services, today announced the appointment of Michael Cleveland as its new Chief Operating Officer, a new position within phData, effective immediately. Cleveland was most recently the Director of Strategy and Business Transformation at BIAS Corporation. He will report […]
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – December 14, 2016 – phData, Inc., a globally recognized leader in big data managed services and consulting recently celebrated its second anniversary. The company has seen rapid growth in its two years of existence and is quickly becoming a household name in the big data industry. Founded by two brothers, phData has […]
Minneapolis – October 31, 2016 – phData, a big data consulting firm and managed services provider, today announced it has joined the Confluent Partner Program to help drive adoption and implementation of Apache KafkaTM and real-time solutions. Confluent, provider of the first streaming platform based on Apache Kafka, designed the program to enable a rapidly growing community […]
NetFlow is a data format that reflects the IP statistics of all network interfaces interacting with a network router or switch. Netflow records can be generated and collected in near real-time for the purposes of cybersecurity, network quality of service, and capacity planning. For network and cybersecurity analysts interested in these data, being able to […]
A secure hadoop cluster requires actions in Oozie to be authenticated. However, due to the way that Oozie workflows execute actions, Kerberos credentials are not available to actions launched by Oozie. Oozie runs actions on the Hadoop cluster. Specifically, for legacy reasons, each action is started inside a single task map-only MapReduce job. Spark does […]