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 ...

For businesses that want to run analytics on low-cost Hadoop clusters, fully compliant SQL is now possible natively on the big data platform, according to Actian.

Hadoop veteran Arun Murthy says Apache Slider will have a major bearing on the future versatility and take-up of the distributed big-data technology.

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.

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 ...

Yahoo CTO Raymie Stata is a key player in leading "big data" analytics engines. With Hadoop moving out of Yahoo and IBM investing in big data, big data is looking to transform businesses and IT ...

The promise of big data is enormous, but it can also become an albatross around your neck if you don't make security of both your data and your infrastructure a key part of your big data project ...

As more and more companies use Hadoop to handle big data, anticipation for forthcoming Version 2.0 grows Apache’s Hadoop technologies are becoming critical in helping enterprises manage vast ...

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 ...

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.