Hadoop training courses and certification programs are available from companies including Cloudera, Hortonworks, IBM and MapR. But if you’re not ready to commit to formal training courses, there are ...

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 ...

EMC today announced a comprehensive strategy for distributing, integrating and supporting the Apache Hadoop open-source software as an enterprise-ready tool for Big Data. EMC introduced the world's ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a world of real-time data, why are we still so fixated on Hadoop? Hadoop, architected around batch processing, remains the poster child for big data, though its outsized reputation still outpaces ...

Hadoop, an open source framework that enables distributed computing, has changed the way we deal with big data. Parallel processing with this set of tools can improve performance several times over.

Sensing a growing interest in big data-style analysis, software provider Revolution Analytics has updated its flagship package of R statistical functions so it can be run with the Hadoop data ...