If you are an investor in the field of Big Data, you must have heard the terms “Big Data” and “Hadoop” a million times. Big Data pundits use the terms interchangeably and conversations might lead you ...

You may not realize it, but Hadoop has already been around for 10 years. Even now, with most organizations having in one way or another adopted it, not everything about it is obvious and clear. But ...

Now more than eight years old, the Apache Hadoop platform for processing and storing Big Data is on the verge of hitting the big time. Or at least that’s what the industry keeps on telling us anyway.

After a bubble peaks, we look back at the year or two before the crash and say “what were we thinking?” The term originated with the South Sea Bubble which peaked in 1720 when the share price of the ...

Unless a "neutral" third party publishes them, we tend to view benchmarks as self-serving exercises that vendors typically stack in their own favor. But recent benchmarks issued by Cloudera and ...

This is a guest post by Dell Software executive Guy Harrison Without doubt, “big data” is the hottest topic in enterprise IT since cloud computing came to prominence five years ago. And the most ...

Intel has launched its own Hadoop distribution, entering an already crowded market of major players all looking to get a piece of the big data pie. The company also announced an open-source effort to ...

Pepperdata, a company that’s built a platform for managing and fine-tuning Hadoop cluster performance, announced a $15M Series B funding round today. The round was led by new investors Wing Venture ...

Like much ground-breaking IT (such as TCP/IP or Unix), Hadoop wasn’t originally built with the enterprise in mind, let alone enterprise security. Hadoop’s original purpose was to manage publicly ...

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