Nevertheless, beneath the hype of big data there is a real revolution in progress, and more than anything else it revolves around Apache Hadoop. Let’s look at why Hadoop is creating such a stir in ...

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 ...

So, in the big data space, a converged architecture will in effect productize Hadoop by using the raw open source components, adding what’s missing, and then productizing the integration to ...

However, to take maximum advantage of big data, IT is going to have to press the re-start button on its architecture for acquiring and understanding information.

Hadoop’s MapReduce provided folks with a big step in capability. It’s hard to overstate exactly how critical this commodification of big data has been for the world.

In a recent DBTA webcast, Shane Johnson, senior product marketing manager, Couchbase, discussed the relationship between NoSQL and Hadoop, detailing the multiple ways to integrate NoSQL databases with ...

Hadoop makes all the big data noise. Too bad it’s not also getting the big data deployments. Indeed, though Hadoop has often served as shorthand for big data, this increasingly seems like a mistake.

Hadoop is everywhere, but a strong competitor is making headway in the market. It's all thanks to years of production use and a solid big data pedigree that powers the billion-dollar LexisNexis ...

Mortar Data, founded in 2010, creates a private, on-demand Hadoop cluster for clients' big data projects and creates "optimized jobs for execution" using Pig and Python. Amazon's S3 cloud storage ...

Solutions integrator Lilien LLC will unveil its end-to-end Big Data and Advanced Analytics product based on the company's Hadoop Starter Cluster reference architecture, a turnkey platform that ...