In what appears to be a change in direction, Hortonworks has released a completely open source Hadoop distribution based on Apache Hadoop that will compete head-on with Cloudera’s CDH3. The new ...

The Apache Software Foundation has released the first production version of Hadoop, the scalable, distributed computing software framework. Hadoop connects thousands of servers to process big data for ...

Data science is an interdisciplinary sphere of study that has gained traction over the years, given the sheer amount of data we produce on a daily basis — projected to be over 2.5 quintillion bytes of ...

According to historians of economic theory, there are two ways to define creative destruction. One is negative—that capitalist systems unleash forces that lead to their own demise. The other is ...

As my colleague Toby Wolpe wrote about earlier today, Gartner released a survey of its Research Circle members today showing that corporate adoption of Hadoop hasn't kept up with the hype. First of ...

Just about six months ago, I posted a column entitled Why Is Everyone Beating Up On Hadoop?. Even while seeing an enormous amount of interest in Hadoop – especially from vendors that were falling all ...

Is Hadoop a cool new petabyte storage array? Or is it already as obsolete as yesteryear's tape drives? Some think Hadoop is merely a bridge to some better, future platform. John, a senior partner at ...

The expanded partnership between Microsoft and Hadoop distribution specialist Hortonworks has borne fruit with the release of a beta of Hortonworks' Hadoop Data Platform for Windows. Hortonworks, ...

Over the past few years there have been numerous eulogies given for Hadoop – the powerful, open-source framework for storing and processing data named after a toy elephant. Of course, one could argue ...

Ten years after its creation, the Hadoop ecosystem is sprawling and ever transforming. InfoWorld’s Andy Oliver went as far as to say, “The biggest thing you need to know about Hadoop is that it isn’t ...