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.

The results from the second annual Syncsort Hadoop survey are in and the 250 high-level respondents predict some surprising future trends of big data.

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 ...

If you run a data warehouse at your organization, you may be wondering how the latest big data technologies, such as Hadoop, can benefit your information analysis. According to IBM product manager ...

Hadoop 2.0 introduces YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator) and demotes MapReduce to one of several tools for mining big data. The result is a more generalized and flexible framework for ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Apache Hadoop is the open source release of a technology that preceded just about every data storage and analytics tool that has since been labelled 'big data'. It is - in many respects - the ...

Teradata Aster has launched a new tool which allows business analysts to work with Hadoop data through SQL query structures. Its Aster SQL-H provides a bridge between widely used business ...