One of the big announcements at the recent Strata Conference in NYC was Cloudera’s support for Apache Spark – one of the many indications that Spark has now “graduated” from AMPLab.   The following GigaOm article makes a strong case for the importance of this development for the Big Data ecosystem:

http://gigaom.com/2013/10/28/spark-is-a-really-big-deal-for-big-data-and-cloudera-gets-it/