The need by corporate IT operations to enable easier interaction with massive — and fast growing — data sets in Hadoop environments is driving a flurry of vendor activity. For one, Splunk last week ...

Startup AtScale is coming out of stealth mode today, revealing its plan to make data stored in the open source Hadoop file system accessible to people inside of companies, through popular business ...

I attended a very worthwhile roundtable this week, organized by Actian, a Big Data business analytics company. It was a very good mix of analysts, investors, media and users. I learned a lot about ...

Despite the significant progress made by the Apache community and start-up contributors like Cloudera, Hadoop is still in its infancy. Like most young open source technologies, Hadoop is and will ...

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The first new update of the open-source big-data software Apache Hadoop in two years has just been released by the Apache Software Foundation. Apache Hadoop 2.8, the popular software framework for ...

Amazon Web Services hopes to entice more Hadoop users to its Elastic MapReduce service with new virtual servers, one of which has 262GB of memory and 6.4TB of storage for big-data analytics. On ...

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Your Apache Hadoop environment eventually will store some form of sensitive data if it doesn’t already. You should have a plan to secure your data within Apache Hadoop from the start in order to avoid ...

“In production” is a phrase often used by enterprise data center administrators to delineate applications and system that are used to support an organization’s day-to-day operations from those in a ...