Hadoop has emerged as a power software framework used to manage the vast data centers of the Cloud providers and social media. ... To boot, a cheerful yellow elephant has been adopted as its logo.

Hadoop may ultimately enable a renaissance in the user experience, but it hasn’t so far. After years of hype, you can’t blame business users who sometimes feel that Hadoop is a white elephant.

News. Hadoop Summit: Yahoo Gathers the Stuffed Elephant Crowd. By John K. Waters; 03/26/2008; Yahoo hosted the first-ever Apache Hadoop Summit this week in Santa Clara, Calif.

Since its founding in 2011, Hortonworks Inc. has fought battles on two fronts: Persuade corporations to adopt an entirely new, open-source data platform called Hadoop for a novel type of analytic proc ...

The company says the ease of checking the Dr. Elephant dashboard to see how well (or badly) Hadoop jobs are running creates a bit of positive peer pressure. “No one wants to have a poorly tuned Hadoop ...

The open-source software, which has emerged as the de facto standard for big data processing, may be what tips enterprise in the favor of open source, according to some high-level execs.

Yahoo hosted the first-ever Apache Hadoop Summit this week in Santa Clara, Calif. The day-long event presented a program of speakers from the Hadoop developer and user communities, including ...

Yahoo hosted the first-ever Apache Hadoop Summit this week in Santa Clara, CA. The day-long event presented a program of speakers from the Hadoop developer and user communities, including ...