Hadoop-as-a-Service (HaaS) vendor Altiscale is moving up the stack with a new service called Altiscale Insight Cloud. The offering sits atop Altiscale Data Cloud, the company's existing service that ...

Everyone tends to focus on the “big” in Big Data, so much so that it’s easy to lose focus on the fact that Hadoop is really about data. Let’s regroup for a minute and really look at what’s going on ...

Dell and Cloudera have created a Hadoop package of pre-integrated software and hardware that promises to cut deployment times for the open-source data analytics platform. Introduced on Thursday, the ...

It is probably a good thing that Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop, named the batch-mode data analytics product he created at Yahoo after his child’s stuffed animal rather than something specific ...

The year 2013 has been a very fruitful one for the purveyors of non-relational database technologies. This week Hadoop analytics vendor Datameer announced venture capital funding of $19 million, a ...

Everyone tends to focus on the “big” in Big Data, so much so that it’s easy to lose focus on the fact that Hadoop is really about data. Let’s regroup for a minute and really look at what’s going on ...

Cloudera, today, announced their newest addition to their solutions stack, adding an authorization framework to Hadoop, called “Sentry,” which Cloudera says delivers advanced authorization controls to ...

Elephants, war rooms and 30 petabytes – this is what it takes to keep Facebook’s data in check according to one of its most recent blog posts. After building out its new data center in Prineville, ...

As we've noted previously, the measure of success of an open source stack is the degree to which the target remains intact. That either comes as part of a captive open source project, where a vendor ...