A variety of other providers are in the early stages of rolling out their cloud-based Hadoop products. Microsoft, for example, has HDInsight in preview, which runs on either Windows or in ...

Amazon Web Services is rolling out a public beta of its Amazon Elastic MapReduce, a service that makes it easier for businesses and researchers to provision capacity for data-intensive tasks being ...

Cloud computing technologies are ubiquitous. While not exactly new technologies, the speed with which they’re transforming business models and efficiencies seem to have accelerated over the past ...

So you’re down 30% to start with by implementing a Java Hadoop app on top of the Java-based Hadoop infrastructure. Now, you don’t have to write your app in Java; you can use C++ or even script ...

Apache's Hadoop, one of the most exciting open source projects of the decade, has reached version 1.0 designation. It's no small milestone. The open source cloud computing framework, which began ...

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