Facing a growing mass of data with vast potential value, every week, all around the world, business executives are starting big data programs. Based on the cost and performance benefits, Hadoop is the ...

Unless a "neutral" third party publishes them, we tend to view benchmarks as self-serving exercises that vendors typically stack in their own favor. But recent benchmarks issued by Cloudera and ...

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 ...

Now more than eight years old, the Apache Hadoop platform for processing and storing Big Data is on the verge of hitting the big time. Or at least that’s what the industry keeps on telling us anyway.

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Pepperdata, a company that’s built a platform for managing and fine-tuning Hadoop cluster performance, announced a $15M Series B funding round today. The round was led by new investors Wing Venture ...

SQL is the gateway drug to enterprise adoption says analysts at recent developer conference. Hadoop Summit, leading big data developer conference, saw the maturation of the Hadoop ecosystem. Hadoop is ...

Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive — and constantly growing — datasets.

Hortonworks -- the Yahoo spinoff dedicated to Hadoop -- has joined forces with analytics outfit Teradata to help big businesses make use of the increasingly popular open source data-crunching platform ...

Fast-growing Hadoop distribution vendor Hortonworks has filed for an initial public offering. “We are aggressively moving toward an IPO,” Hortonworks chief executive Rob Bearden told VentureBeat in an ...