Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is bringing Hadoop to the Windows Azure cloud. The popular big-data analytics framework is now available on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. On the one hand, it's great to ...

As a poster child for big data, Hadoop is continually brought out as the reference architecture for big data analytics. But what exactly is Hadoop and what are the key points of Hadoop storage ...

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 ...

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.

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

Though it wasn't created with security in mind, Hadoop is becoming a necessary platform for companies wanting to get the biggest bang out of big data.

Hadoop may ultimately enable a renaissance in the user experience, but it hasn’t so far. After years of hype, you can’t blame business users who sometimes feel that Hadoop is a white elephant.

In this series of Big Data and Hadoop, we will introduce all the key components of the ecosystem. Stay tuned! About the authors: Harish Ganesan is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Co-Founder ...

Forrester analyst Noel Yuhanna explained the genesis of big data fabrics in his recent report on the matter. According to Yuhanna, the gap between the expectations that companies have with big data ...

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.