If you’ve got a lot of data, then Hadoop either is, or should be on your radar. Once reserved for the Internet empires like Google and Yahoo, the most popular and well-known big data management system ...

During the past few years Neustar, an $830 million publicly-traded data analytics company, has undergone a dramatic business transformation, and it’s been powered almost entirely by Hadoop. The ...

The Hadoop market is white hot right now. It seems everywhere we turn there is a new company throwing their hat into the Hadoop world. Is all of the attention justified? Is this a case of overhype ...

Rob Bearden spent the better part of two years convincing Jerry Yang to spin off a small group of Yahoo ’s engineers into a separate company. He eventually succeeded in 2011, forming Hortonworks with ...

Intel is set to cause a tremor in the big data market tomorrow. The chip maker will announce tomorrow that it will stop pushing its own distribution of open-source Hadoop software for storing and ...

Like many others, I continue to be impressed by the open-source Apache Hadoop software framework. With aplomb, it manages Big Data, images, documents, web logs–and tons of other unstructured and ...

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 ...

Birst’s Southard Jones, VP of product strategy, discusses the challenges that companies face in getting a clear view of their data, across all geographies and systems. Birst’s core strategy focuses on ...

If you go back about a decade, Hadoop was hot and getting hotter. It was a platform for processing big data, just as big data was emerging from the domain of a few web-scale companies to one where ...

The passing of time (not to mention to some degree, turnover of staff) may have smoothed off some of the rougher edges of rivalry over the years, but there is the matter of overlapping projects to ...