This is a guest post by Dell Software executive Guy Harrison Without doubt, “big data” is the hottest topic in enterprise IT since cloud computing came to prominence five years ago. And the most ...

Hortonworks, a contributor to Apache Hadoop, has submitted two new incubation projects to the Apache Software Foundation and also announced the launch of the new “Stinger Initiative.” These three ...

As the newest technology on the block for managing data, curiosity in Hadoop is naturally high. A new study of 102 Hadoop developers conducted by Karmasphere, a provider of technology that makes ...

Big on Data bro Andrew Brust's recent post on the spring cleaning of Hadoop projects evidently touched a nerve, given the readership numbers that went off the charts. By now, the Apache Hadoop family ...

Amazon announced the release of Elastic MapReduce (EMR) 5.0.0 today, which includes, among other things, support for 16 open source Hadoop projects. As AWS continues to hone its various tools to help ...

A partial graphic showing which Hadoop projects have been upgraded within EMR 5.0.0. (Via AWS.) Amazon Web Services said it has released version 5.0.0 of its Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service, which ...

Project Savanna, unveiled last week at the OpenStack Summit in Portland, Ore., includes a framework that connects Hadoop management tools with OpenStack infrastructure. Mirantis is building the ...

While the individual project retirement announcements may seem insignificant, taken as a whole, they constitute a watershed event. To help practitioners and industry watchers appreciate the full ...

I found an interesting discussion going on in the Global Big Data & Analytics group on LinkedIn – “Why do Hadoop projects fail?” Having just returned from the Hadoop Summit 2014 in San Jose, I ...

After major criticism within the Hadoop community regarding its nature and aims, Open Data Platform — an initiative to create a reference-standard Hadoop distribution — announced Monday it will now be ...

Today marks the 10th birthday of sorts for Apache Hadoop, as the first Hadoop cluster was put into production at Yahoo on Jan. 28, 2006. Since then, it has gone on to spawn the "Big Data" craze and ...