I've been involved with cluster computing ever since DEC introduced VAXcluster in 1984. In those days, a three node VAXcluster cost about $1 million. Today you can build a much more powerful cluster ...

Many organizations use Hadoop to gain competitive advantage, but because of the very nature of distributed systems, there are inherent performance limitations that even the most advanced Hadoop users ...

Over at the San Diego Supercomputing Center, Glenn K. Lockwood writes that users of the Gordon supercomputer can use the myHadoop framework to dynamically provision Hadoop clusters within a ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More When we deployed the first production Hadoop cluster in 2006, we were ...

Twitter has outlined plans to move a sizeable slice of its Hadoop data-processing platform to the Google Cloud to boost the resiliency of the social media site’s underlying infrastructure. The company ...

With the massive amount of data proliferating the Web, companies such as Google and many others are building new technologies to sort it all. Core to that movement is something called MapReduce, a ...

High performance computer system vendor SGI plans to offer pre-built clusters running the Apache Hadoop data analysis platform, the company announced Monday. SGI Hadoop Clusters will run fully ...

It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a rack of computers. The buzzword is now well known to your boss but still just a vague and ...

One of the really great things about Amazon Web Services (AWS) is that AWS makes it easy to create structures in the cloud that would be extremely tedious and time-consuming to create on-premises. For ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

As the world’s largest social network, Facebook accumulates more data in a single day than many good size companies generate in a year. Facebook stores much of the data on its massive Hadoop cluster, ...