When it comes to making a large investment to adopt a new technology like Hadoop, eventually the CEO must be presented with the pros and cons and approve the expense. Most CEOs start with a skeptical ...

When you're creating a new way of storing and processing data for global business infrastructure, a little fun can go a long way toward relieving the pressure. No one knows that better than Doug ...

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 ...

The creator of the Hadoop platform, Doug Cutting, is surprised Hadoop didn't have to battle it out with more competitors in its early years but thinks it's now too late for a competitor to take on the ...

Apache Hadoop has been the driving force behind the growth of the big data industry. You'll hear it mentioned often, along with associated technologies such as Hive and Pig. But what does it do, and ...

It was only two years ago that Cloudera, once one of the top vendors in what had been a white-hot Hadoop market, found itself fighting for survival. Hadoop, the open-source data analytics technology ...

A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of Swift from an app language to a critical tool for secure, high-scale ...

Remember how, just a decade ago, Hadoop was the cure to all the world’s large-scale enterprise IT problems? And how companies like Cloudera dominated the scene, swallowing competitors including ...

With the Hadoop Summit taking place this week in San Jose, California, vendors supporting the open-source data-analysis platform are rushing new products to market. Over 2,100 attendees are expected ...

While the term ‘big data’ may feel old to us now, the concept remains relatively new. Hadoop helped popularize and simplify this analytical use of data in 2010, and since then the technology and ...