Data science is an interdisciplinary sphere of study that has gained traction over the years, given the sheer amount of data we produce on a daily basis — projected to be over 2.5 quintillion bytes of ...

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 ...

With the massive amount of data proliferating the Web, companies such as Google and many others are building new technologies to sort it all. Core to that movement is something called MapReduce, a ...

In this special guest feature, Stefan Groschupf of Datameer reflects on the how the Hadoop industry has evolved in the last few years with an eye toward promises and pitfalls. Stefan is CEO of ...

Cloudera Inc. is tweaking its business model. The company started life as the Red Hat for Hadoop — a provider of paid support for the open-source data management platform. Last fall, the Burlingame, ...

While a big data strategy can be the key to uncovering profitable insights and answering complex questions, many organizations struggle to store, manage and analyze this valuable resource. The missing ...

Google Capital, the new investment arm of the search giant, has spent $80 million of its $300 million store to help finance what Brandon Butler of NetworkWorld has called “perhaps the best Hadoop ...

Last time I wrote about Hadoop, I talked about its challenge to traditional SQL-based databases. I left off with mentioning that some SQL proponents have compared Apache Hadoop to Linux 10 years ago.

Migrating a large-scale Hadoop cluster to the cloud is challenging, especially when the cluster is very active and downtime during the migration is not an option. Tony Velcich, senior director, ...

Cloudera is making a credible play to become the commercial brand associated with Apache Hadoop. Not only did Hadoop founder Doug Cutting recently join Cloudera from Yahoo, Cloudera is set to announce ...