Platform Computing, a provider of cluster, grid and cloud management software, has announced support for the Apache Hadoop MapReduce programming model to bring enterprise-class distributed computing ...

In much the same way that Microsoft brought spreadsheet crunching to the business world through its now-ubiquitous Excel, the company is hoping to make a similar impact with big data analysis with its ...

Reporting and analysis drives businesses in making the best possible decisions. The source of all these decisions is the data. There are two types of data: structured and unstructured. Most recently, ...

With the massive amount of data proliferating the Web, companies such as Google and many others are building new technologies to sort it all. Core to that movement is something called MapReduce, a ...

The MapReduce paradigm has emerged as a transformative framework for processing vast datasets by decomposing complex tasks into simpler map and reduce functions. This approach has been instrumental in ...

Hadoop training courses and certification programs are available from companies including Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and MapR. But if you’re not ready to commit to formal training courses, there are ...

The NetApp Open Solution for Hadoop is built on the E2660 storage array, which provides the shared-nothing storage required by HDFS. HDFS is the primary storage system used by Hadoop applications.

Google's new data processing service may look like it's designed to lure users away from Hadoop, but its focus is more selective But on closer look, Cloud Dataflow is better thought of as a way for ...

Open source is driving development of the cloud. My picks for the most interesting software of 2008 are Hadoop and Eucalyptus. Dave Rosenberg Co-founder, MuleSource Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 ...