A few weeks ago, two giants of the big data Hadoop era, Cloudera and Hortonworks, announced they would be merging. The announcement claimed it would be a “merger of equals.” It is fascinating to see ...

As the Hadoop ecosystem matures, the consensus in the industry has been that adoption of Hadoop technology is steady amid continuing disruptive innovation within the open-source framework. To get a ...

With the strong growth over the past 10 to 15 years of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google and Yahoo, data center technologies have advanced rapidly from their enterprise roots as IT ...

Cutting announced the move on his blog yesterday. The move is significant for two reasons. One, it's one more sign that Yahoo is losing the guts of its search intelligence now that it has ceded its ...

Despite some lingering user concerns about security and other issues, Hadoop is ready for enterprise use, according to IT executives at the Hadoop World conference in New York earlier this month.

EMC plans to provide full open-source support for Hadoop with the eventual release of software, appliance, and eventually virtual appliance versions of the Hadoop technology in connection with ...

Millions of dollars have been invested in developing MapReduce code for large data analytics projects. With each new technology that joins the fray, code needs to be migrated in order to take full ...

Apache’s Hadoop technologies are becoming critical in helping enterprises manage vast amounts of data, with users ranging from NASA to Twitter to Netflix increasing their reliance on the open source ...

EMC today announced a comprehensive strategy for distributing, integrating and supporting the Apache Hadoop open-source software as an enterprise-ready tool for Big Data. EMC introduced the world's ...