Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is bringing Hadoop to the Windows Azure cloud. The popular big-data analytics framework is now available on Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. On the one hand, it's great to ...

Next week opens one the largest Big Data events in the World: The O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World Conference in New York City. The event is set to draw thousands of Big Data enthusiasts into the ...

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.

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.

MapR Technologies CEO talks about the Apache Hadoop project and what enhancements his company has added.

Hadoop is the open source software framework at the heart of much of the Big Data and analytics revolution. It provides solutions for enterprise data storage and analytics with almost unlimited ...

The Hadoop programming framework may be synonymous with the "big data" movement but it's not the only tool companies need to derive insights from massive stores of unstructured information ...

Though it wasn't created with security in mind, Hadoop is becoming a necessary platform for companies wanting to get the biggest bang out of big data.

IBM announced a dual approach to big data management with BLU Accelerator and IBM PureData System for Hadoop which combines IBM InfoSphere BigInsights and IBM System X hardware. The PureData System ...

Big Blue is using the open-source Hadoop project to power it's latest efforts to analyze big data.