Have you ever wondered how Google, Facebook and other Internet giants process their massive workloads? Billions of requests are served every day by the biggest players on the Internet, resulting in ...

Two public cloud service providers have rolled out hosted versions of Hadoop clusters, including SkyTap announcing a partnership with Hadoop distributor Cloudera, and Joyent teaming with HortonWorks ...

California advances AI safety with SB 53, requiring transparency and risk reporting. Anthropic backs the bill, calling it a “trust but verify” approach. AI-driven automation is the theme of this ...

Apache's Hadoop, one of the most exciting open source projects of the decade, has reached version 1.0 designation. It's no small milestone. The open source cloud computing framework, which began with ...

Yahoo researchers create the longest pi yet -- and hint at the cloud's potential for highly intense and complex computation Last week, a team of Yahoo researchers creating a long version of pi set a ...

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With the strong growth over the past 10 to 15 years of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google and Yahoo, data center technologies have advanced rapidly from their enterprise roots as IT ...

One of the most noteworthy findings from Wikibon’s annual update to our big data market forecast was how seldom Hadoop was mentioned in vendors’ roadmaps. However, none of those really represents the ...

In one form or another, businesses have always employed data analysis to inform decision making. But today’s state of the art big data analytics platforms like Hadoop have taken things to a whole new ...

During the past few years Neustar, an $830 million publicly-traded data analytics company, has undergone a dramatic business transformation, and it’s been powered almost entirely by Hadoop. The ...

Today Penguin Computing announced Scyld ClusterWare for Hadoop, adding greater capability to the company’s existing Scyld ClusterWare high performance computing cluster management solution. Scyld ...