Did you know that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and ...

Hadoop is not what it used to be, and we mean this in a good way. If we were to speak in hype cycle terms, we would say sometime in the past few years Hadoop exited the peak of inflated expectations ...

Informatica has modified its business intelligence software so that it can work with Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution, the two companies announced Monday. Users of the Informatica’s business ...

If you're a CIO, you should be taking Hadoop seriously. A technology that few people knew about five years ago is now poised to be a major player in enterprise architectures. For all the buzz around ...

New browser-based application suite will make it easier to use Hadoop, the open-source framework for large-scale data processing and analysis Startup Cloudera is introducing a set of applications on ...

Here's a look at different ways to query Hadoop via SQL, some of which are part of the latest edition of MapR's Hadoop distribution SQL: old and busted. Hadoop: new hotness. That’s the conventional ...

Hadoop is a hot topic right now, in the tech press and in the minds of IT organizations with large amounts of data. What is Hadoop and why should business leaders care? Loraine Lawson has broken down ...

What is Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)? The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is the primary data storage system Hadoop applications use. It's an open source distributed processing ...

Storage technology has evolved and matured to the point where it has started to approach commodity status in many data centers. Nevertheless, today’s enterprises are faced with evolving needs that can ...

Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

Over the last few years, big data analytics has become all the rage. Even so, many organizations are discovering that their existing mining and analysis techniques simply are not up to the task of ...

With the Hadoop Summit taking place this week in San Jose, California, vendors supporting the open-source data-analysis platform are rushing new products to market. Over 2,100 attendees are expected ...