Gluster, a provider of open source storage solutions, has just released a version of its storage system that includes support for Apache Hadoop. GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2 employs standard file system APIs ...

Experian is quickly crunching massive amounts of data and making it available to customers thanks to the open source software as well as microservices and API technologies. Experian has implemented a ...

Major Big Data and open source players Hortonworks and Red Hat Inc. today announced their engineering teams will collaborate to enhance Apache Hadoop storage options for enterprises. The companies ...

Quantcast, an internet audience measurement and ad targeting service, processes over 20 petabytes of data per day using Apache Hadoop and its own custom file system called Quantcast File System (QFS).

Big data can mean big threats to security, thanks to the tempting volumes of information that may sit waiting for hackers to peruse. BlueTalon hopes to tackle that problem with what it calls the first ...

In this whitepaper, Yahoo engineers Konstantin Shvachko, Hairong Kuang, Sanjay Radia, and Robert Chansle look at HDFS, the file system component of Hadoop. While the interface to HDFS is patterned ...

With the new release of its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has radically expanded the set of supporting tools for the data processing framework. “What we saw was that most organizations deploy quite a ...

Large open-source projects like Hadoop can easily become fragmented by commercial interests. Those of us who have built our companies on this project need to unify our cause. We need data artists, not ...