I attended a very worthwhile roundtable this week, organized by Actian, a Big Data business analytics company. It was a very good mix of analysts, investors, media and users. I learned a lot about ...

Few organizations have holistic insight into how the overall Hadoop ecosystem is trending. From the analysts to the Hadoop vendors themselves, there is always some other piece of the market or data ...

It has been nearly six years since I attended my first Hadoop World conference in 2009, and, oh my, how the platform has progressed. What I'm most excited about, as Strata-Hadoop World 2015 approaches ...

The campaign to put Apache Hadoop at the center of the data universe in the enterprise got a little stronger this week with the release of Cloudera Enterprise 5.2, which increases security among its ...

The expanded Hortonworks Certified Technology Program is designed to address the breadth and depth of capabilities available to integrate with and accelerate the growth of a vibrant Apache Hadoop ...

Now that many organizations see the utility in big data, BMC Software has provided a way to incorporate jobs from the Hadoop data processing platform into larger enterprise workflows. “We provide a ...

Taking note of how customers have been working with its Hadoop distribution, Cloudera has expanded the scope of its software so that it can serve as a hub for all of an organization’s data, not just ...

At the sold out Hadoop Summit Europe 2014 today, Hortonworks unveiled Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) 2.1. The updated version of its Hadoop distribution represents the culmination of its Stinger ...

Cloudera has unveiled a new set of Hadoop management tools, called Cloudera Enterprise, that the company will offer for an annual subscription fee, it announced on Tuesday. It has also updated its ...

There are two phrases that define the next generation of business computing: Big Data and ecosystem. Hadoop, an open-source platform for Big Data, succeeds in both these arenas. As the community ...

Making Hadoop data more accessible has become a common goal in the world of enterprise software, and on Thursday a brand-new contender jumped into the ring. Billed as the first unified, Hadoop-native ...

It’s been a big year for Apache Hadoop, the open source project that helps you split your workload among a rack of computers. The buzzword is now well known to your boss but still just a vague and ...