Technology professionals with strong skills in Apache Hadoop are among the hardest to find. In fact, demand for people with Hadoop expertise has skyrocketed 34% since last year, according to Wanted ...

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 ...

In this special guest feature Ajay Anand, Vice President of Products at Kyvos Insights, gives his views on speed and interactivity of OLAP and the scalability and flexibility of Hadoop. Previously he ...

This was originally posted at ZDNet's Between the Lines. A correction has been made to this story. See details below. Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a ...

Anticipating greater Apache Hadoop use in production environments, Cloudera has outfitted its commercial distribution of the data processing framework with additional configuration and management ...

In this video from the ISC Big Data’14 Conference, DK Panda from Ohio State University presents: Performance Optimization of Hadoop Using InfiniBand RDMA. The Hadoop framework has become the most ...

If Hadoop users have one persistent complaint, it’s that the product is tough to work with no matter who you are, whether analyst, BI guru, or data scientist. Adatao, a company that recently landed ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Listen up, folks: You may be running Hadoop wrong. Hadoop is open-source software for scalable, distributed computing. It has become the “operating system for big data,” but that doesn ...

Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

As I work with larger enterprise clients, a few Hadoop themes have emerged. A common one is that most companies seem to be trying to avoid the pain they experienced in the heyday of JavaEE, SOA, and ...