When you think of Hadoop, you probably think of a complex on-premises set up in your data center, but Altiscale wants to reduce some of that complexity by moving the whole thing to the cloud and ...

Altiscale, maker of a cloud-hosted Hadoop solution, is expanding its service to include running SQL queries, a feature of broad interest to Hadoop users. For those more comfortable using a third ...

Google rival Amazon Web Services put its Elastic MapReduce service out in beta to offer Hadoop as a service in April 2009, and it was available for production use shortly after that. AWS offers the ...

Typical enterprise Hadoop distributions rely on a lot of moving parts -- leveraging up to 20 or more disparate components -- which leads to management complexity and total cost of ownership (TCO) ...

Two public cloud service providers have rolled out hosted versions of Hadoop clusters, including SkyTap announcing a partnership with Hadoop distributor Cloudera, and Joyent teaming with ...

Altiscale, Inc., a leading innovator in Hadoop-as-a-Service solutions, today announced it has raised $30 million in Series B funding. This latest round of funding is led by Northgate, with ...

Enables companies to accelerate big data analytics initiatives with dynamic, cloud-based test environments on demand with free solution ...

Organizations that want to run Apache Hadoop to analyze their big data without setting up a computer cluster can now procure the data processing framework as a service from a startup co-founded by ...

For Hadoop to move forward into the next decade, the community must address one key but often overlooked thing: quality of service.

Altiscale, a company that has always been about reducing the complexity related to using Hadoop, has taken that to the next level today with the release of Altiscale Insight Cloud, a cloud service ...

Organizations that want to run Apache Hadoop to analyze their big data without setting up a computer cluster can now procure the data processing framework as a service from a startup co-founded by ...