The days of businesses relying on locked-down operating systems and platforms tightly controlled by commercial organisations are numbered, according to Hadoop creator Doug Cutting. Proprietary ...

With the strong growth over the past 10 to 15 years of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google and Yahoo, data center technologies have advanced rapidly from their enterprise roots as IT ...

LAS VEGAS – EMC Monday unveiled a purpose-built appliance for processing both structured and unstructured data sets for business analytics tasks. EMC today also announced the availability of two new ...

It's been six years since Yahoo developer Doug Cutting created a platform for managing, storing and analyzing large volumes of data, naming it for his son's toy elephant and turning it over to the ...

BMC Software said Tuesday it has joined Hadoop software and services company Hortonworks' technology partner program to integrate its Hadoop workflows for the enterprise. The move gives the ...

The article, Hadoop, a Free Software Program, Finds Uses Beyond Search, explains the very interesting history behind Hadoop. What is Hadoop? It’s distributed computing software that enables data ...

BURLINGAME, Calif. In the span of just a couple of years, Hadoop, a free software program named after a toy elephant, has taken over some of the world’s biggest Web sites. It controls the top search ...

The latest release of Cloudera's Hadoop distribution puts big data processing into a neat stack for ease of use and efficiency. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing ...