MapR's Spyglass keeps an eye on big data deployments

At Hadoop Summit in San Jose Tuesday Hadoop distribution vendor MapR Technologies took the wraps off a new initiative intended to maximize the productivity of users and administrators of big data deployments."This is putting some focus on the user and operator side," says Dale Kim, senior director of Product Marketing at MapR. "It provides deep visibility and full control."MapR calls it the Spyglass Initiative — a comprehensive, open and extensible approach to centralized monitoring of big