Musings from the Karmasphere Team

Public Beta of Karmasphere Studio Professional Edition

Thursday, 26 August 2010 09:55 | Written by Gerald Wluka

I'm bursting with excitement - not because this is my first post on the Karmasphere blog, but because we are opening up the beta of Karmasphere Studio Professional Edition to the public!

Karmapshere Studio Professional Edition (Beta) not only delivers a whole new range of features and functionality to dramatically accelerate the Hadoop development process and ensure enterprise production readiness, but it also represents the first commercial grade software release from Karmasphere. (This will have positive ramifications for our Community Edition users in the not too distant future.)

Just send me an email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with your name, the company you work for and a short note on your experience with Hadoop - and if you're not a competitor we'll get details on participating in the beta emailed to you ASAP.

Happy Hadooping!

Product Development Star on our Board

Wednesday, 18 August 2010 06:07 | Written by MartinH

I've got more exciting news from Karmasphere to share with you today. We have added a new board member, Debby Meredith, who brings extensive engineering and product development expertise to us. Debby has been instrumental in delivering new software products to market for most of her career and we are thrilled to have her join our already "all-star" board. You can read more in the official press release here.

Introducing Abe Taha, VP Engineering

Thursday, 12 August 2010 14:20 | Written by MartinH

We are thrilled to announce today that Abe Taha, engineering manager extraordinaire, has joined Karmasphere as vice president of engineering. Abe's varied experiences at companies such as Ning, Yahoo! and Google, his hands-on development work with Hadoop and related technologies and his ability to build and manage teams, will be extremely beneficial to the work we are doing at Karmasphere. Please join us in welcoming Abe to the Karmasphere team. For the complete press release go here.

Develop MapReduce Applications for Hadoop from Eclipse

Thursday, 17 June 2010 00:00 | Written by MartinH

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We’ve been asked many times by boatloads of organizations and developers to make our MapReduce developer product for Apache Hadoop available for Eclipse. Well we’ve been working on it and I’m happy to say that today, Karmasphere Studio is available for Eclipse.

The product is based on the Karmasphere Application Framework™, our native client-side Hadoop technology stack which incorporates core functionality for working with Hadoop clusters and jobs across all versions of Hadoop, from all major desktop operating systems and through firewalls.

What can you do with it? Here’s a flavor…

Easily develop and test Hadoop jobs in Eclipse, with full integration with Eclipse’s Java editor.
Enjoy visual runtime debugging of jobs on your Hadoop cluster from Eclipse.
Work with Amazon Elastic MapReduce and S3 from Eclipse and submit and manage jobs from the GUI.
Browse HDFS and S3, treating files as if they were local in Eclipse.
Use embedded Hadoop libraries for all released versions

As always, we’re happy to get This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it on what you like, what you don’t, what you’d like us to add.

New Version of Karmasphere Studio Available

Monday, 14 June 2010 00:00 | Written by Shevek

Continuing our commitment to innovation and bringing the latest capabilities to Karmasphere Studio for Big Data professionals, we’ve released a new version of the product for NetBeans which includes:

* Support for Bootstrap Actions scripts on Amazon EMR clusters.
* Support for Hadoop 0.20 on Amazon EMR clusters.
* File chooser for remote filesystems (such as HDFS and Amazon S3).
* Updated embedded Hadoop libraries.
* Improved API on job submission.
* Support for new Amazon regions.
* Bandwidth used by monitor windows reduced.
* Monitor windows now asynchronous.
* Support for multiple filesystem roots in windows.
* Improved generic reflection in the MapReduce editor.
* Support for Hadoop 0.20 OutputFormat in MapReduce editor.

Up next and soon … Karmasphere Studio will be available for Eclipse

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