That depends on how fast Hadoop can make up a $33 billion delta. Gartner analyst (and big data afficionado extraordinaire) Merv Adrian has a candid counter to those that ask how he's willing to stand ...

Now that MapR has received a load of cash from Google Capital, it is time to ask: What does this latest round of Hadoop funding mean? All three of the major players have gotten large amounts of money ...

At the Fluent Conference this week, John Furrier, host of theCube, invited Gary Nakamura, CEO of Concurrent Inc. Startup, to talk in-depth about the trajectory of his company from the seedfunding days ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...

Jeff Hammerbacher says that Facebook tried them all. And none of them did what the web giant needed them to do. Hammerbacher is the Harvard-trained mathematician Facebook hired in 2006. His job was to ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

This article, Hadoop numbers suggest the best is yet to come, originally appeared on TechRepublic.com. Who killed John F. Kennedy? Why do weird things happen within the Bermuda Triangle? And is the ...

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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June was an exciting month for Apache Spark. At Hadoop Summit San Jose, it was a frequent topic of conversation, as well as the subject of many session presentations. On June 15, IBM announced plans ...