The boys at Hortonworks eat, sleep and live Hadoop, and there’s a feeling they’ll never be satisfied. Not because they, and other Apache Hadoop committers, think that the Open Source Big Data ...

Building on the apparent success of its Cloud Foundry PaaS project, EMC and VMware spinoff Pivotal today unveiled backers for a new initiative, aimed at defining a core set of Apache technologies to ...

Teradata added Hadoop integration to its unified data architecture, partnered with Mellanox to increase throughput on its systems and launched its latest data warehouse platform. The moving parts come ...

Just five years ago, the infrastructure space was awash in stories about the capabilities cooked into the Hadoop platform—something that was, even then, only a few pieces of code cobbled onto the core ...

Google has long made it possible for its users to run Hadoop — a framework for storing and processing large amounts of data — on its Cloud Platform. Until now, however, the only way to get in and out ...

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 ...

A number of the largest big data vendors, including IBM, Hortonworks and Pivotal, have banded together to specify a unified base platform for the open source Hadoop data processing software. The Open ...

For the first production release of what will be its flagship Apache Hadoop distribution, Hortonworks has focused on providing a set of tools to help deploy, manage, and extend the data analysis ...

Hadoop will evolve into an invisible foundational data infrastructure technology this year, says Cloudera Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer Mike Olson. Now's the time to focus on building ...

As reported earlier this year, Yahoo and Benchmark Capital announced their backing and Apache Hadoop spin-off Hortonworks. The startup was launched to accelerate the adoption of Apache Hadoop, the ...