As a poster child for big data, Hadoop is continually brought out as the reference architecture for big data analytics. But what exactly is Hadoop and what are the key points of Hadoop storage ...

Hadoop was named after a toy elephant, sounds like a Dr. Seuss character, and it's the hottest thing in big-data technology. It's a software framework that makes short work of a tall task—managing ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...

Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive — and constantly growing — datasets.

Is the day of the pure Hadoop startups over? Are the big vendors, and in particular the cloud service providers, taking over Hadoop infrastructure? Will most Big Data production systems be built on ...

The new Hadoop is nothing less than the Apache Foundation’s attempt to create a whole new general framework for the way big data can be stored, mined, and processed. It ought to not only further ...

Companies moving beyond the pilot phase of their Big Data projects need to evaluate the partnership strategies of the Hadoop suppliers when picking a vendor, writes Wikibon.org Principal Research ...

In an effort to secure a spot as the de facto virtualization provider for all things Hadoop, VMware today announced an open source project dubbed Serengeti that lets companies easily deploy and manage ...

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Hadoop carries a lot of promise in the IT world for the way it has democratized access to massively parallel storage and computational power. But the level of hype that surrounds Hadoop is ...