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’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. Rackspace made some noise yesterday at the Strata + Hadoop ...

It's hard to believe, but it's true. The Apache Hadoop project, the open source implementation of Google's File System (GFS) and MapReduce execution engine, turned 10 this week. The technology, ...

As a poster child for big data, Hadoop is continually brought out as the reference architecture for big data analytics. But what exactly is Hadoop and what are the key points of Hadoop storage ...

Apache’s Hadoop technologies are becoming critical in helping enterprises manage vast amounts of data, with users ranging from NASA to Twitter to Netflix increasing their reliance on the open source ...

A while ago, I posted What is "Big Data?". Here's a segment of that post. “Big Data” is a catch phrase that has been bubbling up from the high performance computing niche of the IT market.

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 ...

The new Hadoop is nothing less than the Apache Foundation’s attempt to create a whole new general framework for the way big data can be stored, mined, and processed. It ought to not only further ...