This is a guest post by Dell Software executive Guy Harrison Without doubt, “big data” is the hottest topic in enterprise IT since cloud computing came to prominence five years ago. And the most ...

Big on Data bro Andrew Brust's recent post on the spring cleaning of Hadoop projects evidently touched a nerve, given the readership numbers that went off the charts. By now, the Apache Hadoop family ...

While the individual project retirement announcements may seem insignificant, taken as a whole, they constitute a watershed event. To help practitioners and industry watchers appreciate the full ...

As the newest technology on the block for managing data, curiosity in Hadoop is naturally high. A new study of 102 Hadoop developers conducted by Karmasphere, a provider of technology that makes ...

After major criticism within the Hadoop community regarding its nature and aims, Open Data Platform — an initiative to create a reference-standard Hadoop distribution — announced Monday it will now be ...

EMC plans to provide full open-source support for Hadoop with the eventual release of software, appliance, and eventually virtual appliance versions of the Hadoop technology in connection with ...

I found an interesting discussion going on in the Global Big Data & Analytics group on LinkedIn – “Why do Hadoop projects fail?” Having just returned from the Hadoop Summit 2014 in San Jose, I ...

Project Savanna, unveiled last week at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, Ore., includes a framework that connects Hadoop management tools with OpenStack infrastructure. Mirantis is building the ...

Informatica is joining the growing ranks of vendors moving to support Hadoop, the open-source framework for large-scale or “big data” processing, the company announced Monday. The 9.1 version of ...

Storage technology has evolved and matured to the point where it has started to approach commodity status in many data centers. Nevertheless, today’s enterprises are faced with evolving needs that can ...