The growing need for companies to manage surging volumes of structured and unstructured data is continuing to propel enterprise use of open source Apache Hadoop software. However, instead of replacing ...

This was originally posted at ZDNet's Between the Lines. A correction has been made to this story. See details below. Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a ...

Anticipating greater Apache Hadoop use in production environments, Cloudera has outfitted its commercial distribution of the data processing framework with additional configuration and management ...

In this slidecast, Wiliam Bain and David Brinker from ScaleOut Software present: Enabling Real-Time Analytics Using Hadoop Map/Reduce. Welcome to real-time analytics for Hadoop! ScaleOut hServer V2 is ...

Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

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What Hadoop Can Do for Big Data - Organizations are embracing Hadoop for several notable merits: • It's distributed. Bringing a high-tech twist to the adage, “Many hands make light work,” data is ...