The Mid Week News 04/07/2018 edit 
ok - time for the news again…
Technology updates (details are on the relevant technology pages):
- Apache Beam has hit 2.5
- Apache Gobblin has hit 0.11
- Apache Solr has hit 7.4
- Apache Zeppelin has hit 0.8
Other technology news:
- Hortonworks have the latest in their long set of posts on Hadoop 3.x - this time on federated name nodes - link
- Google have announced a NAS storage offering - Google Cloud Filestore - link; The Register
- There’s a new Apache incubator proposal - this time for Doris, and MPP interative SQL data warehouse built on Apache Impala with a storage layer inspired by Google Mesa that’s come from Baidu where it was known as Palo - link
- MapR have starting talking about version 6.1 of the MapR Data Platform - link1; link2; Datanami view
- And a couple of big updates for Azure
- Azure HDInsight has had an upgrade and is now 50% cheaper - link
- And Azure Data Lake Storage has had a Gen2 upgrade, which integrates it with Azure Blob Storage with a shared hierarchical name space - link
- IDC have their latest object storage marketscape out - link
- And Matt Turck has his 2018 Big and AI Landscape out - well worth a read - link