An industry-supported online school provides a good grounding in the science and application of very large datasets. A virtual school, developed by a team of leading software and hardware companies, ...

The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. A reasonable estimate would put the technology on the “slope of ...

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 ...

In the big data battle for architectural supremacy, the cloud is clearly winning and Hadoop is clearly losing. Customers are shying away from investing in monolithic Hadoop clusters in favor of more ...

The floods that devastated the hard disk industry in Thailand are now half a year old, and the prices per terabyte are finally dropping once again. That means data will start piling up and people ...

It’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...

Karmasphere has introduced Karmasphere Analyst, productivity software for data professionals working with massive data sets. "Karmasphere is focused on providing software for developers and analysts ...

One big disadvantage that comes with a hybrid cloud strategy is forcing your developers to learn and understand the different techniques required by cloud providers and on-premises software vendors ...

The fall of MapR caused a rush to judgement about the future of Hadoop. To understand what this means for data initiatives, the viability of Hadoop and data lakes must be separately examined. Data ...

Informatica is joining the growing ranks of vendors moving to support Hadoop, the open-source framework for large-scale or “big data” processing, the company announced Monday. The 9.1 version of ...