When the Big Data moniker is applied to a discussion, it’s often assumed that Hadoop is, or should be, involved. But perhaps that’s just doctrinaire. Hadoop, at its core, consists of HDFS (the Hadoop ...

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Platform Computing supports a wide range of customers, many of which are embarking on MapReduce initiatives as a way of managing the extreme growth in unstructured data, Scott Campbell, director, ...

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The latest release of Apache Hadoop code includes a new workload management tool that backers of the project say will make it easier for developers to build applications for the big data platform.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its Elastic Map Reduce platform with a new version of Hadoop and updated support for its data analytics ecosystem. Elastic Map Reduce is AWS platform for ...

Novel architectures are born out of necessity and for some applications, including molecular dynamics, there have been endless attempts to push parallel performance. According to the leads behind a ...

Reporting and analysis tools help businesses make better quality decisions faster. The source of information that enables these decisions is data. There are broadly two types of data: structured and ...