Apache's Hadoop, one of the most exciting open source projects of the decade, has reached version 1.0 designation. It's no small milestone. The open source cloud computing framework, which began with ...

One of the most noteworthy findings from Wikibon’s annual update to our big data market forecast was how seldom Hadoop was mentioned in vendors’ roadmaps. However, none of those really represents the ...

Yahoo researchers create the longest pi yet -- and hint at the cloud's potential for highly intense and complex computation Last week, a team of Yahoo researchers creating a long version of pi set a ...

Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud-computing service that uses Hadoop, an open-source software framework, to crunch large amounts of data. The service, called Amazon Elastic MapReduce, is ...

After early problems scaling its infrastructure nearly derailed the company before it got off the ground, Twitter wound up developing some world-class systems for keeping the service alive. It ...

The big data technology landscape is varied and vast – and a new report from Forrester examines the key strands, with non-relational databases taking the bulk of the honours. The report, claimed to be ...

Apache Hadoop is headed for the same place as mainframes and data warehouses, Forrester Research Inc. said yesterday, though it has a few years of strong growth left. The main reasons for that perhaps ...

Traditional business intelligence solutions can’t scale to the degree necessary in today’s data environment. One solution getting a lot of attention recently: Hadoop, an open-source product inspired ...

In one form or another, businesses have always employed data analysis to inform decision making. But today’s state of the art big data analytics platforms like Hadoop have taken things to a whole new ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 14 — Bright Computing, the leading provider of hardware-agnostic cluster and cloud management software, announces that it will showcase its enhancements and updates to Bright ...