This is a guest post by Dell Software executive Guy Harrison Without doubt, “big data” is the hottest topic in enterprise IT since cloud computing came to prominence five years ago. And the most ...

Hortonworks, a contributor to Apache Hadoop, has submitted two new incubation projects to the Apache Software Foundation and also announced the launch of the new “Stinger Initiative.” These three ...

Amazon announced the release of Elastic MapReduce (EMR) 5.0.0 today, which includes, among other things, support for 16 open source Hadoop projects. As AWS continues to hone its various tools to help ...

While the individual project retirement announcements may seem insignificant, taken as a whole, they constitute a watershed event. To help practitioners and industry watchers appreciate the full ...

Your Apache Hadoop environment eventually will store some form of sensitive data if it doesn’t already. You should have a plan to secure your data within Apache Hadoop from the start in order to avoid ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. by Chris Preimesberger Hadoop deployments often start as ...

There’s an old axiom that goes something like this: If you offer someone your full support and financial backing to do something different and innovative, they’ll end up doing what everyone else is ...

I found an interesting discussion going on in the Global Big Data & Analytics group on LinkedIn – “Why do Hadoop projects fail?” Having just returned from the Hadoop Summit 2014 in San Jose, I ...

STAMFORD, CT--(Marketwired - Mar 16, 2015) - While an overwhelming majority of Hadoop users agree that data security is a critical requirement, most disagree or are not sure that its native security ...

From cancelled conferences to disrupted supply chains, not a corner of the global economy is immune to the spread of COVID-19. Read now To recap, a year ago, Cloudera's earnings and share prices were ...