Hadoop has emerged as a power software framework used to manage the vast data centers of the Cloud providers and social media. Increasingly, it is used in the Enterprise as well. Like RedHat, it ...

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.

LinkedIn has open-sourced Dr. Elephant, its tool to improve developer productivity and cluster efficiency by making it easier to tune Hadoop jobs.

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 ...

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, CA. The day-long event presented a program of speakers from the Hadoop developer and user communities, including ...

A decade later, Google's innovations have spawned new open-source projects such as Hadoop—named after a toy elephant belonging to the son of one of its creators.

Cutting named the framework "Hadoop" after his son's yellow stuffed elephant. The yellow pachyderm is the official mascot/logo of the project. About the Author ...

Cutting named the framework "Hadoop" after his son's yellow stuffed elephant. The yellow pachyderm is the official mascot/logo of the project.