Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive — and constantly growing — datasets.

A few weeks ago, two giants of the big data Hadoop era, Cloudera and Hortonworks, announced they would be merging. The announcement claimed it would be a “merger of equals.” It is fascinating to see ...

MapR Technologies Inc. passed a major landmark in its journey to deliver structured query functionality for Hadoop on Tuesday after its open-source Drill tool graduated from incubation at the Apache ...

If you’re bored of reading about studies that show how Hadoop is on the cusp of massive growth in the Big Data space, look away now. The latest study, courtesy of research outfit Technavio and ...

Enables leading Japanese digital agency to leverage Hadoop for real-time data analysis SAN JOSE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–September 4, 2014– MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the top-ranked ...

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 ...

ScaleOut Software says its new in-memory processing middleware addresses a gap in Hadoop's capabilities by bringing real-time analytics to the open-source distributed computing software.

As the Hadoop ecosystem matures, the consensus in the industry has been that adoption of Hadoop technology is steady amid continuing disruptive innovation within the open-source framework. To get a ...

While the Apache Hadoop distributed data processing platform has made great strides in enterprise businesses, it still needs ease-of-use, security, lifecycle management, and tooling to solidify its ...

Enterprise firm Cloudera has chosen East London's Tech City to host its new headquarters for its swelling European, Middle East and African (EMEA) markets. The firm opened its Rivington Street, London ...

Despite some lingering user concerns about security and other issues, Hadoop is ready for enterprise use, according to IT executives at the Hadoop World conference in New York earlier this month.

EMC today announced a comprehensive strategy for distributing, integrating and supporting the Apache Hadoop open-source software as an enterprise-ready tool for Big Data. EMC introduced the world's ...