Apache Hadoop Elephant (Photo credit: IntelFreePress) Within enterprise data centers, Hadoop is a shiny new toy—the same place where the mainframe is sometimes thought of as a dinosaur. Yet the ...

The big thing in Big Data this year might not be the data, but the applications. It’s oxymoronic, I know, but it’s not the first time we’ve heard this. As I shared last year, SAP already contends that ...

Looking for solutions to your Big Data problems? This week many of the biggest stars in the Hadoop universe are showing off their latest and greatest Big Data products at this week's conference in ...

MapR also introduced its free Sandbox for Hadoop to help organizations close the Hadoop skills gap and allow more user to quickly learn how to develop and administer Hadoop applications. MapR Sandbox ...

When building applications using Hadoop, it is common to have input data from various sources coming in various formats. In his presentation, “New Tools for Building Applications on Apache ...

As the Hadoop ecosystem matures, the consensus in the industry has been that adoption of Hadoop technology is steady amid continuing disruptive innovation within the open-source framework. To get a ...

MapR’s new application gallery further simplifies Hadoop. Launched in June, the gallery includes a range of ready-made apps for all kinds of Hadoop activities, from provisioning and security to ...

SAP’s recent acquisition of Altiscale Inc., a company that offers a cloud-based version of the Hadoop open-source software for storing, processing and analyzing many different data styles, gives ...

What needs to happen for Hadoop to go mainstream is the development of a robust market of vertically-targeted, use-case-specific Hadoop applications that enable enterprises to actually do ...

I've been hearing the term "Hadoop" everywhere. I asked my colleague David White, ARC's analytics expert, what it was and whether it was something that supply chain executives needed to know about ...

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is considered a core component of Hadoop, but it’s not an essential one. Lately, IBM has been talking up the benefits of hooking Hadoop up to the General ...