The days of businesses relying on locked-down operating systems and platforms tightly controlled by commercial organisations are numbered, according to Hadoop creator Doug Cutting. Proprietary ...

With the strong growth over the past 10 to 15 years of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google and Yahoo, data center technologies have advanced rapidly from their enterprise roots as IT ...

LAS VEGAS – EMC Monday unveiled a purpose-built appliance for processing both structured and unstructured data sets for business analytics tasks. EMC today also announced the availability of two new ...

It's been six years since Yahoo developer Doug Cutting created a platform for managing, storing and analyzing large volumes of data, naming it for his son's toy elephant and turning it over to the ...

Dell and Cloudera have created a Hadoop package of pre-integrated software and hardware that promises to cut deployment times for the open-source data analytics platform. Introduced on Thursday, the ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

Hortonworks and Pivotal, two rival companies in Hadoop software and service, are joining forces to develop the Apache Ambari project to create a component that will handle the provisioning, monitoring ...

The latest release of Cloudera's Hadoop distribution puts big data processing into a neat stack for ease of use and efficiency. Dave Rosenberg has more than 15 years of technology and marketing ...