At last, big-data fans, we've got some word of the seemingly-missing-but-not-forgotten Windows Server implementation of Hadoop promised by Microsoft and Hortonworks. I'd started wondering whether ...

On May 21, Hortonworks made available for download the 1.1 release of Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) for Windows, an open-source implementation of Apache Hadoop. Hortonworks made available for ...

Cloudera is packaging its distribution of the open-source Hadoop software with developer tools, technical support, training programs, and sales and marketing resources to make it easier for ...

LAS VEGAS—EMC has always been able to store lots and lots of files and data. But when it came to the processing of enterprise big data workloads, the company—which didn’t make servers—knew a few years ...

With the massive amount of data proliferating the Web, companies such as Google and many others are building new technologies to sort it all. Core to that movement is something called MapReduce, a ...

Apache Hadoop’s computing and storage capabilities are persuading many CIOs to make the move to this distributed computing architecture. Unfortunately, the unreliability of some Hadoop distributions ...

John Furrier and Jeff Kelly, theCUBE co-hosts, sat down with Jack Norris, CMO of MapR, for a chat revolving around issues such as the adoption of Hadoop, the improvements in clients’ performance and ...

While Hadoop has been making its way into more venues of utilization, some representatives at this year’s Hadoop Summit in Dublin, Ireland, have been finding new paths forward by going back to examine ...

Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

When it comes to making a large investment to adopt a new technology like Hadoop, eventually the CEO must be presented with the pros and cons and approve the expense. Most CEOs start with a skeptical ...