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

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. But what does it do, and why do you need all its strangely-named friends, such as Oozie, Zookeeper and Flume?

As 2014 gets into full swing, Hadoop is increasingly being used for applications that are integral to daily business operations. No longer is Hadoop viewed by some organizations as just a platform ...

People are often hung up on the volume aspect of big data but other factors can be just as telling in the issues they raise for business.

Called, Big Data Analytics for Security, the offering combines MapR’s Hadoop distribution, a collection of machine learning algorithms from MapR, MapReduce-based analytic jobs, and Platfora’s Hadoop ...

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 ...

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 carries a lot of promise in the IT world for the way it has democratized access to massively parallel storage and computational power. But the level of hype that surrounds Hadoop is ...

Analyzing large volumes of data is only part of what makes big data analytics different from traditional data analytics ...

Guest To help you make the most of Hadoop, let's look at the promise of big data analytics, and how to avoid expensive, disillusioning failure.