There was a time, not too long ago, when taking the temperature of the Hadoop project and finding out the latest trends and advancements in the world of distributed computing was a relatively easy ...

The Chinese economy and technology industry have been booming in the past several decades. What does this mean for global competition, and where are our Chinese counterparts innovating? Dave Vellante ...

The Hadoop distribution vendor will update core Apache Hadoop components once a year, while continually updating services that run on top of Hadoop. Hortonworks today released the newest version of ...

Hadoop Summit San Jose has come to an end. This year, I was there to cover the news, and to present a breakout session. My talk focused on fragmentation in the industry: the Big Data ecosystem has too ...

Software stability is a key requirement for large companies, and Hortonworks is taking a big step in that direction with a new release cadence for its enterprise Hadoop software. Starting with the ...

While compute and networking are fairly homogenous across the enterprise datacenter these days, the same cannot be said for storage, which is a bit of a mess and far less uniform than the clustered ...

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Microsoft is stepping up its support for Hadoop with its Windows Server and Windows Azure deliverables and will be offering its contributions back to the Apache Software Foundation and the Hadoop ...

In this article, we’ll take a look at the two core elements of Hadoop: the distributed file system and execution engines. This content is based on the curriculum from course HDE 100: Hadoop Essentials ...

Software stability is a key requirement for large companies, and Hortonworks is taking a big step in that direction with a new release cadence for its enterprise Hadoop software. Starting with the ...