In this video, Jonathan Simon walks developers through setting up Hadoop on Google Compute Engine and running a MapReduce job on the Freebase dataset. Google Compute Engine is a great place for ...

MapR Technologies will make its distribution for Hadoop available on Google Compute Engine. The combination of the new Google service and the MapR distribution is intended to enable customers to ...

Self-service BI and analytics-for-all aren’t buzzwords anymore. We have now entered the modern analytics era, Gartner noted in its latest Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics.

Hadoop started out as a batch-oriented system for chewing through massive amounts of unstructured data on the cheap, enabling all sorts of things such as search engines and advertising systems. The ...

AWS watch out! A new gunslinger is in town with the recent general availability of the Google Compute Engine. This new platform could make a significant difference in the big data arena, affecting ...