Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

Reporting and analysis tools help businesses make better quality decisions faster. The source of information that enables these decisions is data. There are broadly two types of data: structured and ...

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 ...

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...

On the eve of another Strata week, EMC Greenplum announced Pivotal HD, a Hadoop distribution that is tightly integrated with an MPP database engine called HAWQ. What all this alphabet soup means is ...

Platform Computing, a provider of cluster, grid and cloud management software, has announced support for the Apache Hadoop MapReduce programming model to bring enterprise-class distributed computing ...

I gave an introductory talk on Hadoop yesterday at the Visual Studio Live! conference in Las Vegas. During the talk, I discussed how Hadoop Streaming, a utility which allows arbitrary executables to ...

There is more to big data than Hadoop, but the trend is hard to imagine without it. Its distributed file system (HDFS) is helping businesses to store unstructured data in vast volumes at speed, on ...

Apache Spark and Apache Hadoop are both popular, open-source data science tools offered by the Apache Software Foundation. Developed and supported by the community, they continue to grow in popularity ...

Reporting and analysis tools help businesses make better quality decisions faster. The source of information that enables these decisions is data. There are broadly two types of data: structured and ...

Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, today announced the company is now bringing enterprise-class distributed computing to business analytics applications ...