By now, we’re familiar with the neat capabilities Hadoop stack brings to data. But it can still be confusing to understand what it is, particularly if you think about technology as fitting into ...

I've been hearing the term "Hadoop" everywhere. I asked my colleague David White, ARC's analytics expert, what it was and whether it was something that supply chain executives needed to know about ...

MapR Technologies CEO talks about the Apache Hadoop project and what enhancements his company has added.

When it comes to making a large investment to adopt a new technology like Hadoop, eventually the CEO must be presented with the pros and cons and approve the expense. Most CEOs start with a ...

What Is Hadoop In Business Intelligence? With Hadoop – and specifically the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and HDFS-compliant storage systems like Amazon S3 and MapR-FS – you can store data in ...

Although Hadoop has been around for a few years, the ecosystem surrounding it has grown and many large companies are starting to ask what it can do for their business, . Is your company one of them?

Hadoop is here to stay. But it's mature analytics tools for Hadoop, DBMS abstraction layers over it and Hadoop-as-a-Service cloud offerings that will make the open source Big Data platform actionable.

There is a chasm in the tech world. On one side stand the developers, those who create and explore technology. The other side is the home of business, where executives ponder what is right for ...

Hadoop is all the rage, but it requires expertise that's beyond the ken of many IT shops, customers say.

Hadoop is not meant to replace your current data infrastructure, only augment it. Here are examples when Hadoop makes sense, when it doesn't, and what you can expect to pay.