As a poster child for big data, Hadoop is continually brought out as the reference architecture for big data analytics. But what exactly is Hadoop and what are the key points of Hadoop storage ...

Hadoop sits at the center of big data. So does the news around the ecosystem, there’s a lot of it.

Next week opens one the largest Big Data events in the World: The O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World Conference in New York City. The event is set to draw thousands of Big Data enthusiasts into the ...

MapR Technologies CEO talks about the Apache Hadoop project and what enhancements his company has added.

Hadoop on Windows, or on Azure, could speed adoption of big data analytics by making access and analytics using familiar Microsoft tools, more widely available.

Hadoop 2.0 reinvents its approach to job processing with YARN 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 ...

Forrester analyst Noel Yuhanna explained the genesis of big data fabrics in his recent report on the matter. According to Yuhanna, the gap between the expectations that companies have with big data ...

With the Hunk integrated analytics platform for Hadoop, Splunk is pursuing its goal of spreading the reach of big data beyond the specialists.