Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

Reporting and analysis tools help businesses make better quality decisions faster. The source of information that enables these decisions is data. There are broadly two types of data: structured and ...

Did you know that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...

In this video, Ken Hertzler and Scott Campbell from Platform Computing announce the company’s new support for MapReduce. “Platform Computing offers a distributed analytics platform that is fully ...

Google today pledged that it will not sue any users, distributors or developers who have implemented open-source versions of its MapReduce programming model for processing large data sets, even though ...

Reporting and analysis tools help businesses make better quality decisions faster. The source of information that enables these decisions is data. There are broadly two types of data: structured and ...