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 ...

Atos designed and developed Hadoop Self-Service platform in response to the high adoption rates of the Hadoop ecosystem and of Big Data technologies in enterprises. It is a generic software platform ...

Now Cloudera, the big guy of big data (most recently valued at $4.1 billion), is also going public but not anymore as a Hadoop distribution platform.

Hidden within the hype about size and speed about the next Hadoop is a new feature that could radically shift the way Hadoop is used. Topics Spotlight: New Thinking about Cloud Computing ...

The Hadoop initiative unveiled by Pivotal and Hortonworks last month has a new recruit in WANdisco but the arguments about the Open Data Platform have only just kicked off.

A select group of developers is being invited by Hortonworks, the commercial caretaker of Apache Hadoop, to join a limited technology preview of the company's own forthcoming cloud data platform ...

Five years ago, Hadoop came roaring into the mainstream as the solutions to all big data problems. Now that reality has settled in, it's time for a more realistic assessment We are now dead-center ...

There is a lot of pressure on open source to deliver a viable platform for the enterprise. As we learned at the recently concluded Hadoop Summit (#hadoopsummit), Hortonworks believes that Hadoop + YAR ...