Technology executives are hopping on the big data bandwagon at a rapid clip as they run Hadoop pilots, eye internal information streams and struggle to find talent. Here's a look at 30 big data ...

MapR Technologies CEO talks about the Apache Hadoop project and what enhancements his company has added.

Guest To help you make the most of Hadoop, let's look at the promise of big data analytics, and how to avoid expensive, disillusioning failure.

For the past few months, there have been a lot of rumors that Yahoo will be launching a separate company that would focus on the development and commercialization of Apache Hadoop. Derrick Harris from ...

As enterprises work through big data projects, one trend that I’m seeing is the adoption of cloud-based data warehousing and data lake solutions as alternatives to Hadoop projects.

Isotopes, co-founded by Arun Murthy, launched a sophisticated analytics agent. Arun was one of the creators of Hadoop who ...

Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times ...

You may have heard of this Apache Hadoop thing, used for Big Data processing along with associated projects like Apache Spark, the new shiny toy in the open source movement. They're among the most ...

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is bringing Hadoop to the Windows Azure cloud. The popular big-data analytics framework is now available on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. On the one hand, it's great to ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. But what does it do, and why do you need all its strangely-named friends, such as Oozie, Zookeeper and Flume?