AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

Hadoop was named after a toy elephant, sounds like a Dr. Seuss character, and it's the hottest thing in big-data technology. It's a software framework that makes short work of a tall task—managing ...

Today marks the 10th birthday of sorts for Apache Hadoop, as the first Hadoop cluster was put into production at Yahoo on Jan. 28, 2006. Since then, it has gone on to spawn the "Big Data" craze and ...

When it comes to making a large investment to adopt a new technology like Hadoop, eventually the CEO must be presented with the pros and cons and approve the expense. Most CEOs start with a skeptical ...

Big on Data bro Andrew Brust's recent post on the spring cleaning of Hadoop projects evidently touched a nerve, given the readership numbers that went off the charts. By now, the Apache Hadoop family ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk ...

Want to understand the type of systems global businesses will be using in five years? Look at the technology used by Google today. Enterprise has a history of riding in Google’s slipstream. It was in ...

Hadoop is almost at the same price point as it would have been for the old archive technology, but Hadoop is a data processing platform whereas tape isn’t. Hadoop gets you best of both worlds, and ...

Jeff Hammerbacher says that Facebook tried them all. And none of them did what the web giant needed them to do. Hammerbacher is the Harvard-trained mathematician Facebook hired in 2006. His job was to ...

Hadoop introduced a new way to simplify the analysis of large data sets, and in a very short time reshaped the big data market. In fact, today Hadoop is often synonymous with the term big data. Since ...

Back in the 1800s John Godfrey Saxe wrote a famous poem about six blind men trying to discover what an elephant is by touching a part and describing it. Saxe observes that, “each was partly in the ...