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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. Rackspace made some noise yesterday at the Strata + Hadoop ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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, for ...

If your company needs high-performance computing for its big data, an in-house operation might work best. Here’s what you need to know, including how high-performance computing and Hadoop differ. In ...