Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

Reporting and analysis tools help businesses make better quality decisions faster. The source of information that enables these decisions is data. There are broadly two types of data: structured and ...

Platform Computing, a provider of cluster, grid and cloud management software, has announced support for the Apache Hadoop MapReduce programming model to bring enterprise-class distributed computing ...

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

On the eve of another Strata week, EMC Greenplum announced Pivotal HD, a Hadoop distribution that is tightly integrated with an MPP database engine called HAWQ. What all this alphabet soup means is ...

This was originally posted at ZDNet's Between the Lines. A correction has been made to this story. See details below. Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a ...

Reporting and analysis tools help businesses make better quality decisions faster. The source of information that enables these decisions is data. There are broadly two types of data: structured and ...