When your data and work grow, and you still want to produce results in a timely manner, you start to think big. Your one beefy server reaches its limits. You need a way to spread your work across many ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

Hadoop has forever changed the economics and dynamics of large-scale computing, and its use among enterprises looking to augment their traditional data warehouses continues to grow. During the first ...

Cloudera, a provider of Hadoop-based software and services, and online course prvider Udacity have partnered to offer Hadoop and data science courses. The first, Introduction to Hadoop and MapReduce, ...

As the data world undergoes its Cambrian explosion phase, our data tools need to become more advanced to keep pace. Deep Learning has emerged as a key tool in the non-linear arms race of machine ...

A database that easily spans multiple data centers and/or the cloud ensures the fastest possible response times (both read and write) for customers and employees who are geographically separated. A ...

This week, join Ruby on Rails enthusiasts for a 30-minute introduction to Hadoop. Columbia TechBreakfast takes place Wednesday morning. Drupal-lovers meet at Bertha’s in Fells Point on Wednesday ...

Hortonworks says the deal struck this week to acquire XA Secure will help provide a comprehensive approach to Hadoop security for the first time. The Hadoop software and services firm has acquired XA ...

To simplify the roll-out of clusters for big data applications, Skytap is now offering pre-configured Cloudera Hadoop templates that can run in the company’s public cloud. There is a growing interest ...

EMC Greenplum on Monday unveiled Pivotal HD, a new Apache Hadoop big data distribution that the company said moves Hadoop queries from a batch to an interactive process and makes them as easy as SQL ...