Linux Foundation offers Hadoop training The online class will provide students with basic knowledge of the leading big data program.

The expanded partnership between Microsoft and Hadoop distribution specialist Hortonworks has borne fruit with the release of a beta of Hortonworks' Hadoop Data Platform for Windows.

The expanded partnership between Microsoft and Hadoop distribution specialist Hortonworks has borne fruit with the release of a beta of Hortonworks' Hadoop Data Platform for Windows.

By offering big data services in its Azure cloud on Linux, Microsoft is sending several important messages to customers.

Linux leader Red Hat has shipped another minor update to its 6 enterprise line to better equip its distribution for massive scale out, big data environments. Along the same lines, the company also ...

The two companies also are developing a Canonical Juju Charm for deploying MapR Hadoop within private and public cloud computing environments.

Although technically Hadoop is still in pre-release 1.0, it has proven to be stable and useful for Big Data web 2.0 applications. When you are using Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo! you ...