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 with ...

One of the most noteworthy findings from Wikibon’s annual update to our big data market forecast was how seldom Hadoop was mentioned in vendors’ roadmaps. However, none of those really represents the ...

Two public cloud service providers have rolled out hosted versions of Hadoop clusters, including SkyTap announcing a partnership with Hadoop distributor Cloudera, and Joyent teaming with HortonWorks ...

Yahoo researchers create the longest pi yet -- and hint at the cloud's potential for highly intense and complex computation Last week, a team of Yahoo researchers creating a long version of pi set a ...

Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud-computing service that uses Hadoop, an open-source software framework, to crunch large amounts of data. The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is ...

Google has long made it possible for its users to run Hadoop — a framework for storing and processing large amounts of data — on its Cloud Platform. Until now, however, the only way to get in and out ...

After early problems scaling its infrastructure nearly derailed the company before it got off the ground, Twitter wound up developing some world-class systems for keeping the service alive. It ...

The big data technology landscape is varied and vast – and a new report from Forrester examines the key strands, with non-relational databases taking the bulk of the honours. The report, claimed to be ...

Apache Hadoop is headed for the same place as mainframes and data warehouses, Forrester Research Inc. said yesterday, though it has a few years of strong growth left. The main reasons for that perhaps ...

Bright Computing, a leading provider of hardware-agnostic cluster and cloud management software, announces a significant update to distribution-agnostic Bright Cluster Manager for Apache Hadoop. The ...

In one form or another, businesses have always employed data analysis to inform decision making. But today’s state of the art big data analytics platforms like Hadoop have taken things to a whole new ...