There is little doubt that Hadoop adoption is growing, and not just among enterprise-sized organizations, but by small- and medium-sized businesses as well. In an effort to understand this maturing ...

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Jan 28, 2014) - Altiscale, Inc., today announced the general availability of the Altiscale Data Cloud, the first and only cloud service purpose-built to run Apache™ ...

Today the ODPi issued the first set of documents that describes a standard distribution of basic runtime components for Hadoop, including YARN, HDFS, and MapReduce. Going forward, the organization is ...

In this post, Hadoop experts are going to describe how to develop and configure single node hadoop cluster setup installation to swiftly perform easy operations with Hadoop MapReduce and Hadoop ...

A recent study conducted by our friends over at Pepperdata of over 100 production Hadoop clusters uncovered the eight most common and insidious symptoms of cluster flux that plague companies of all ...

Now that many organizations see the utility in big data, BMC Software has provided a way to incorporate jobs from the Hadoop data processing platform into larger enterprise workflows. “We provide a ...

Hadoop is big and getting bigger. One recent estimate says that Hadoop currently had a market worth $1.5 billion dollars in 2012, and is projecting a compound annual growth rate of 54.7% between 2012 ...

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Dec 6, 2012) - MapR Technologies, Inc., the Hadoop technology leader, announced today the launch of its European operation to meet the needs of its growing community of ...

Over at The Data Stack, Intel’s Tim Allen writes that the key to optimizing Hadoop on x86 is to tune the underlying Java so that it takes advantage of capabilities in Intel hardware. When you do that, ...

A database that easily spans multiple data centers and/or the cloud ensures the fastest possible response times (both read and write) for customers and employees who are geographically separated. A ...