Hadoop training courses and certification programs are available from companies including Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and MapR. But if you’re not ready to commit to formal training courses, there are ...

Hadoop has been widely embraced for its ability to economically store and analyze large data sets. Using parallel computing techniques like MapReduce, Hadoop can reduce long computation times to hours ...

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 ...

Industrial environments such as those found within large electric and gas utilities are producing massive volumes of data in real-time that is overwhelming traditional ICT architectures. Additionally, ...

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 ...

While Hadoop is officially 15 years old as an Apache project, it only gained mainstream IT attention 10 years ago. Hadoop started as an open source implementation of key Google technologies used for ...

SpringSource on Tuesday announced the general availability release of Spring for Apache Hadoop, which integrates the Hadoop framework for data-intensive distributed computing with the Spring Java/J2EE ...

EMC on Tuesday updated the operating system of its Isilon scale-out NAS appliance with technology from its Greenplum Hadoop appliance to provide native integration with the Hadoop Distributed File ...

EMC has launched version 1.1 of its software-defined storage/big data product ViPR, alongside an Hadoop overlay that can allow any existing storage to be accessed for big data analytics. The ...