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As a poster child for big data, Hadoop is continually brought out as the reference architecture for big data analytics. But what exactly is Hadoop and what are the key points of Hadoop storage ...

Doug Cutting, creator of the distributed computing platform Hadoop, on why the platform is in an almost unassailable position and what's in store for the platform.

In the big data battle for architectural supremacy, the cloud is clearly winning and Hadoop is clearly losing. Customers are shying away from investing in monolithic Hadoop clusters in favor of more ...

In this series of Big Data and Hadoop, we will introduce all the key components of the ecosystem. Stay tuned! About the authors: Harish Ganesan is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Co-Founder ...

At the most basic level, you have two options: you can choose to manage Hadoop in-house as a marketing IT function, or you can outsource big data as a service. Let’s look at each option in turn.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Apache Hadoop is opening up lots of possibilities for analyzing big data, but there is also complexity in the applications and techniques for managing that data effectively.

The promise of big data is enormous, but it can also become an albatross around your neck if you don't make security of both your data and your infrastructure a key part of your big data project ...

The Thing About Hadoop and Spark Before any discussion of Hadoop and Spark at the edge can begin, there is an important point to be made about scalable analytics tools. Often time’s market hype is ...

Books such as Hadoop for Dummies, intended as an entry-level primer for the big data application, are among the manuals offered either for free or for a nominal fee to students.