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 ...

The product is built on top of Hadoop 2.0 and allows companies to process massive amounts of big data in real time. According to Phu Hoang, co-founder of the company, who was one of the first ...

When Doug Cutting created the Hadoop framework 10 years ago he never expected it to bring massive-scale computing to the corporate world. "My expectations were more moderate than what we've seen ...