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 ...

When you're creating a new way of storing and processing data for global business infrastructure, a little fun can go a long way toward relieving the pressure. No one knows that better than Doug ...

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 ...

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 ...

Intel is set to cause a tremor in the big data market tomorrow. The chip maker will announce tomorrow that it will stop pushing its own distribution of open-source Hadoop software for storing and ...

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 ...

IBM said Friday that it will invest $100 million on research for analytics and big data projects and expanded its portfolio accordingly. The company also launched Hadoop-based services. Hadoop is open ...