I've been involved with cluster computing ever since DEC introduced VAXcluster in 1984. In those days, a three node VAXcluster cost about $1 million. Today you can build a much more powerful cluster ...

Cloudera has seen some pretty amazing growth for a year-old startup. Backed by an impressive list of investors and advisors and run by a team of experienced technology veterans, Cloudera commercially ...

MapR Technologies wants to make Hadoop faster for its users. First, the company is releasing MapR Distribution 5.0 to speed real-time management of applications. Complementing this is the introduction ...

Getting insights out of big data is typically neither quick nor easy, but Google is aiming to change all that with a new, managed service for Hadoop and Spark. Cloud Dataproc, which the search giant ...

The big improvements in Hadoop 2.x were the introduction of the YARN framework for job scheduling and cluster resource management, and high availability for the Hadoop Distributed Filing system. We ...

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 ...

Hadoop is one of the most popular frameworks for creating distributed processing environments using commodity hardware. This makes it the first choice for many when implementing big data. However, the ...

Over the last few years, big data analytics has become all the rage. Even so, many organizations are discovering that their existing mining and analysis techniques simply are not up to the task of ...

Read the rest of this story in the new issue of InformationWeek Tech Digest (registration required). So you want to build a Hadoop cluster, load up everything you know about your business, and start ...

The number of production Hadoop clusters is growing, but far too often, that means the number of dedicated clusters just for running it is expanding as well. This means a lot of extra management, ...