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 ...

Hadoop is designed to store big data cheaply on a distributed file system across commodity servers. How you get that data there is your problem. And it’s a surprisingly critical issue because ...

It is hard to think of a technology that is more identified with the rise of big data than Hadoop. Since its creation, the framework for distributed processing of massive datasets on commodity ...

Given the rise of big data, I’m sure you’re hearing the buzz around Apache Hadoop, the software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications under a free license.

Hadoop veteran Arun Murthy says Apache Slider will have a major bearing on the future versatility and take-up of the distributed big-data technology. Written by Toby Wolpe, Contributor April 4 ...

“The big data fabric is needed because, if you look at the underlying problem, before big data, data was divergent and located in many different systems,” Shankar tells Datanami. “Twenty years back, ...

Big Data, Big News. This week's O'Reilly Strata and Hadoop World conference in New York has attracted a wide range of IT vendors, from industry leaders like IBM and Hewlett-Packard to companies ...

Some members of the Hadoop community are proposing a new object storage environment for Hadoop, which would let the big data platform store data in a manner similar to popular cloud data stores ...

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