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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

In this video from the ISC Big Data’14 Conference, DK Panda from Ohio State University presents: Performance Optimization of Hadoop Using InfiniBand RDMA. The Hadoop framework has become the most ...

As I work with larger enterprise clients, a few Hadoop themes have emerged. A common one is that most companies seem to be trying to avoid the pain they experienced in the heyday of JavaEE, SOA, and ...

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.

Spark or Hadoop? This question has recently sparked various discussions throughout the online communities. Even though these two work on different principles, they can be applied in a same way for ...