The bubble of hype surrounding Apache Hadoop – that darling of big data enthusiasts such as Amazon and Yahoo – may be about to burst. According to a recent report by analyst Gartner, investment in the ...

It has been nearly six years since I attended my first Hadoop World conference in 2009, and, oh my, how the platform has progressed. What I'm most excited about, as Strata-Hadoop World 2015 approaches ...

Mohamed Elmallah, Manager of Enterprise Applications and Architecture at the Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles, discussed the hospital’s implementation of Hadoop and the value they have driven from ...

With over 30 billion things connected by 2020, the Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to be one of the most disruptive technological advancements in recent ages. Organizations are starting to ...

Publicly available use cases for big data and Hadoop are often thin on the ground. We take a look at some examples at Jaguar Land Rover, Zurich Insurance and the Home Office. Here at diginomica we ...

Cloudera Inc., a provider of Apache Hadoop-based data management software, released a solution intended to simplify the process of running and managing Hadoop throughout the operational lifecycle of a ...

Behind the scenes at Chicago-based financial services company Northern Trust, a massive construction project is underway. Len Hardy, the bank’s chief architect, is overseeing the development of a huge ...

Anticipating greater Apache Hadoop use in production environments, Cloudera has outfitted its commercial distribution of the data processing framework with additional configuration and management ...