With the new release of its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has radically expanded the set of supporting tools for the data processing framework. “What we saw was that most organizations deploy quite a ...

Hadoop, while it may be synonymous with big data, and while it may be free to access and work with, engineering teams globally will admit that behind every Hadoop undertaking is a major technical ...

Data is continuing to grow inside of organizations. Enterprise content management system, business intelligence and various other forms of structured and unstructured data have left leaders scrambling ...

Hadoop apps are key to many organisations' cost-effective Big Data plans yet may introduce risks of their own, notes Stefanie Hoffman Big Data trends aren't going away any time soon. Neither are ...

While Hadoop has been the poster child for big data, the open source platform’s future looked bleak in Gartner’s recent Hadoop Adoption Study, where the analyst firm stated that demand “looks fairly ...

The creator of the Hadoop platform, Doug Cutting, is surprised Hadoop didn't have to battle it out with more competitors in its early years but thinks it's now too late for a competitor to take on the ...

In much the same way that Microsoft brought spreadsheet crunching to the business world through its now-ubiquitous Excel, the company is hoping to make a similar impact with big data analysis with its ...

Big data is a collection of organized, semistructured, and unstructured data that may be mined for information and are used in machine learning, predictive modeling, as well as other advanced ...

The boys at Hortonworks eat, sleep and live Hadoop, and there’s a feeling they’ll never be satisfied. Not because they, and other Apache Hadoop committers, think that the Open Source Big Data ...

As a poster child for big data, Hadoop is continually brought out as the reference architecture for big data analytics. But what exactly is Hadoop and what are the key points of Hadoop storage ...