Yahoo has spun off its internal Hadoop development team into an independent company, named Hortonworks. The company, which counts both Yahoo and Benchmark Capital as investors, was announced on ...

Behind Yahoo’s push to open up Web search and advertising is software powerful enough to sort through the entire Library of Congress in less than half a minute. The software, called Hadoop, is part of ...

eSpeaks host Corey Noles sits down with Qualcomm's Craig Tellalian to explore a workplace computing transformation: the rise of AI-ready PCs. Matt Hillary, VP of Security and CISO at Drata, details ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), the leading developer of Apache Hadoop, today announced significant enhancements to the open source software, accelerating the ...

The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo is considering spinning off its Hadoop engineering division into a new company in an effort to commercialize the open source, Big Data-crunching software ...

An item in today’s Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) indicates that Yahoo (ticker symbol YHOO) may be contemplating spinning off its’ Hadoop software engineering unit into a new separate firm that would ...

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An increasing number of jumbo-size enterprise data sets-and all the technology needed to create, store, network, analyze, archive and retrieve them-are considered “big data.” This massive amount of ...

Yahoo! is releasing their tested source code used to help power its sites and products, called Hadoop. Hadoop is free Java software framework born out of an open-source implementation of Google’s ...

A peek under the hood of Yahoo's Hadoop deployment illustrates how vast the ecosystem has become -- and how the company that invented it is still leading the way We’ve heard a lot lately about how ...

Yahoo is discontinuing its distribution of the Hadoop platform and will instead focus on Apache Hadoop, the Hadoop Team at Yahoo said this week. Hadoop, which was built initially by Apache chairman ...

To advance the adoption of the Hadoop technology for processing massive data sets, Yahoo will release a version of the software it has perfected to power many of its key sites and services. The ...