To make it easier for companies to get information about Hadoop applications and move existing workloads over to Hadoop, MapR has launched a Hadoop application gallery and formed a partnership with ...

Technology professionals with strong skills in Apache Hadoop are among the hardest to find. In fact, demand for people with Hadoop expertise has skyrocketed 34% since last year, according to Wanted ...

It’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...

EMC plans to provide full open-source support for Hadoop with the eventual release of software, appliance, and eventually virtual appliance versions of the Hadoop technology in connection with ...

This week's O'Reilly Strata and Hadoop World conference in New York has attracted a wide range of IT vendors, from industry leaders like IBM and Hewlett-Packard to companies established in the Hadoop ...

Hadoop distributor Cloudera has released a commercial edition of the Apache Spark program, which analyzes data in real time from within Cloudera’s Hadoop environments. The release has the potential to ...

Making good on an announcement made earlier this year, Microsoft has installed a version of Apache Hadoop on its Azure cloud service. The company now offers a limited preview version of the ...

I spoke briefly about the evolution of modern data apps in a previous Forbes piece on the use of big data in the cloud. Essentially, the history of big data can be divided into thread broad ...

The Apache Software Foundation unveiled its latest release of its open source data processing program, Hadoop 2. It runs multiple applications simultaneously to enable users to quickly and efficiently ...

One commonly cited stumbling block to the broader adoption of Apache Hadoop in the enterprise is the difficulty and expense of finding and hiring developers who understand and can think in Hadoop ...

If Hadoop users have one persistent complaint, it’s that the product is tough to work with no matter who you are, whether analyst, BI guru, or data scientist. Adatao, a company that recently landed ...

Making good on an announcement made earlier this year, Microsoft has installed a version of Apache Hadoop on its Azure cloud service. The company now offers a limited preview version of the ...