According to historians of economic theory, there are two ways to define creative destruction. One is negative—that capitalist systems unleash forces that lead to their own demise. The other is ...

Storage technology has evolved and matured to the point where it has started to approach commodity status in many data centers. Nevertheless, today’s enterprises are faced with evolving needs that can ...

Apache Hadoop is becoming the de facto infrastructure environment for pushing data across a distributed infrastructure to then later analyze with MapReduce in an effort to optimize web pages, ...

Google Cloud Storage has long had the ability to run Hadoop so developers can do advanced analytics on its distributed computing platform. Today, Google is attempting to simplify this process with a ...

When it came to storage, the promises of Hadoop sound redolent of those associated with the early days of nuclear power: commodity storage would be too cheap to meter. The original design premise was ...

At the Strata + Hadoop World 2015 conference this week, Cloudera announced that it has begun beta testing a columnar data store, dubbed Kudu, that will run natively on top of Hadoop, while providing ...

EMC has integrated the open-source Hadoop Distributed File System into its EMC Isilon scale-out storage system, to help it make products that can organise massive unstructured datasets. The Isilon ...

As a poster child for big data, Hadoop is continually brought out as the reference architecture for big data analytics. But what exactly is Hadoop and what are the key points of Hadoop storage ...

The Hadoop framework was created to deliver a balance between performance and data management efficiencies and while this is a good part of the reason it has taken off in recent years, there are still ...

Big data is a pretty hot topic right now, but when it comes to cloud implimentation, there’s still a lot to learn. Today’s first big data panel at VMworld welcomed Cloudera co-founder Amr Awadallah ...

While compute and networking are fairly homogenous across the enterprise datacenter these days, the same cannot be said for storage, which is a bit of a mess and far less uniform than the clustered ...

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