The creator of the Hadoop platform, Doug Cutting, is surprised Hadoop didn't have to battle it out with more competitors in its early years but thinks it's now too late for a competitor to take on ...

There several technologies specific to big data that your IT infrastructure should support. Hadoop is one of the technologies most closely associated with big data. The Apache Hadoop project ...

Gualtieri and other speakers said Hadoop adoption will continue to grow rapidly because it “democratizes big data problem solving” and is scaling to offer new capabilities and insights into ...

Ian Pointer is a senior big data and deep learning architect, working with Apache Spark and PyTorch. He has more than 15 years of development and operations experience.

A few weeks ago, two giants of the big data Hadoop era, Cloudera and Hortonworks, announced they would be merging. The announcement claimed it would be a “merger of equals.” It is fascinating ...

To better cope with the ever-rising amount of data it processes, Concurrent started using Hadoop CDH from Cloudera two years ago. “Hadoop is the iron hammer we use for taking down big data ...

That is, not every organization needs petabytes of storage and ten thousand cores to find value in their data when using Hadoop and Spark. Indeed, the recent merger of the two “big” Hadoop companies ...

The upcoming delivery of Apache Hadoop 3 later this year will bring big changes to how customers store and process data on clusters. Here at the annual Apache Big Data show in Miami, Florida, a pair ...

TrueCar Finds Hadoop Drives Value One company that has moved aggressively to get more from big data is car buying service TrueCar, which maintains a massive up-to-the-minute database of selling ...

Big data promises to help organizations better ... companies may get themselves into a bit of a bind.” “Hadoop and similar NoSQL data stores enable any organization—large or small—to ...