Add Symantec to the rapidly growing list of tech vendors aiming to groom Apache Hadoop for the enterprise. The company today announced Symantec Enterprise for Hadoop, an add-on with which companies ...

This paper provides a high-level overview of how Apache Cassandra™ can be used to replace HDFS, with no programming changes required from a developer perspective, and how a number of compelling ...

Major Big Data and open source players Hortonworks and Red Hat Inc. today announced their engineering teams will collaborate to enhance Apache Hadoop storage options for enterprises. The companies ...

Big data can mean big threats to security, thanks to the tempting volumes of information that may sit waiting for hackers to peruse. BlueTalon hopes to tackle that problem with what it calls the first ...

In this whitepaper, Yahoo engineers Konstantin Shvachko, Hairong Kuang, Sanjay Radia, and Robert Chansle look at HDFS, the file system component of Hadoop. While the interface to HDFS is patterned ...

With the new release of its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has radically expanded the set of supporting tools for the data processing framework. “What we saw was that most organizations deploy quite a ...

Cloud computing is a new technology which comes from distributed computing, parallel computing, grid computing and other computing technologies. In cloud computing, the data storage and computing are ...

Yahoo spinoff company Hortonworks has released a preview edition of what will be a fully open source distribution of the Apache Hadoop data analysis platform, called the Hortonworks Data Platform, the ...