Hadoop changes the game for enterprise storage. We look at how Hadoop crunches big data, its key storage requirements and survey the vendors that offer Hadoop storage products ...

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

Doug Cutting, creator of the distributed computing platform Hadoop, on why the platform is in an almost unassailable position and what's in store for the platform.

Hadoop was named after a toy elephant, sounds like a Dr. Seuss character, and it's the hottest thing in big-data technology. It's a software framework that makes short work of a tall task ...

Just about every player in the Big Data and analytics game was in New York last week at the Strata + Hadoop World conference, to showcase their latest technologies. Over 7,000 people attended the ...

The most widely used tool in mass data analysis is currently Hadoop, an open source software framework that supports the running of applications on large clusters of hardware.

The Hadoop community should not underestimate how much enterprise adoption is depending on increasing Hive maturity. Hive can open up Hadoop systems to traditional data analysts and traditional ...

DataTorrent made its primary product, DataTorrent RTS, generally available today. The product is built on top of Hadoop 2.0 and allows companies to process massive amounts of big data in real time ...

Hortonworks has a new vision that not only leverages data at rest in Hadoop, data streaming in Spark and data in motion in Apache NiFi, but also data at the tipping point where data itself sets ...

Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets.