While Hadoop has been making its way into more venues of utilization, some representatives at this year’s Hadoop Summit in Dublin, Ireland, have been finding new paths forward by going back to examine ...

Through its developerWorks site, IBM is helping spread the word about an academic-based project that provides free videos on numerous data analytics concepts, such as the recently published ...

Cloudera is packaging its distribution of the open-source Hadoop software with developer tools, technical support, training programs, and sales and marketing resources to make it easier for ...

With the industry’s eyes fixed on the growing rivalry among the top Hadoop distributors, Altiscale Inc. is quietly encroaching into the emerging market for managed implementations of the notoriously ...

In 2004 Google released a white paper on their use of the MapReduce framework to perform fast and reliable executions of similar processes / data transformations & queries at terabyte scale. Yahoo ...

Revolution Analytics on Tuesday lined up a Hadoop partnership with Hortonworks as its analytics platform increasingly rides on top of big data projects. And for good measure, Revolution Analytics is ...

BMC's Control-M software automation system will help speed up Hadoop implementation and can also be integrated with Hadoop subcomponents Hot on the heels of Hortonworks acquiring a security vendor to ...

The growing enterprise interest in Big Data analytics is beginning to drive partnerships between vendors of traditional relational database management technologies and purveyors of the open source ...

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 ...

What are some of the cool things in the 2.0 release of Hadoop? To start, how about a revamped MapReduce? And what would you think of a high availability (HA) implementation of the Hadoop Distributed ...