Adopted by Internet luminaries, big data framework Hadoop has skyrocketed to popularity; a nice kid that nobody wanted to say anything negative about. However, now that technology is not quite as new ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

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It takes a community to raise an elephant -- that was the warm, fuzzy sentiment at the Hadoop Summit in San Jose this week. And the elephant, otherwise known as Apache Hadoop, is growing up quick.

Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

Apache's Hadoop, one of the most exciting open source projects of the decade, has reached version 1.0 designation. It's no small milestone. The open source cloud computing framework, which began with ...

One question I get asked a lot by my clients is: Should we go for Hadoop or Spark as our big data framework? Spark has overtaken Hadoop as the most active open source Big Data project. While they are ...

Apache’s Hadoop framework stormed onto the scene several years ago, and quickly gained a large chunk of the market for big data processing. But if the data and services firm LexisNexis has its say ...

HStreaming just announced that it has received funding from Atlas Venture, a high-profile Boston-based VC that owns a stake in sqrrl, Nimbus and dozens of other early-stage tech startups. The company ...

When Doug Cutting created the open-source Hadoop framework while working at Yahoo! Inc. in 2006, he didn’t imagine his invention would spawn an ecosystem of breathtaking scope and complexity. The ...