It has been nearly six years since I attended my first Hadoop World conference in 2009, and, oh my, how the platform has progressed. What I'm most excited about, as Strata-Hadoop World 2015 approaches ...

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 skeptical ...

The market for Hadoop and related products is one of the most active in all of enterprise software. I’ve developed a simple framework that can help quickly explain the differences in the way Hadoop ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

When enterprises interested in leveraging big data and analytics ask how to get started, they often are advised to begin with Hadoop, Apache Software’s open source data storage and processing ...

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. From the outside, Hadoop ...

It’s not too hard to find use cases for Hadoop, but many seem to focus on how Internet companies use Big Data. That’s great if you’re LinkedIn, CBS Interactive, or Four Square, but what about the rest ...

The lure of using big data for your business is a strong one, and there is no brighter lure these days than Apache Hadoop, the scalable data storage platform that lies at the heart of many big data ...

Hadoop is not what it used to be, and we mean this in a good way. If we were to speak in hype cycle terms, we would say sometime in the past few years Hadoop exited the peak of inflated expectations ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Apache Hadoop has emerged as the ...

Publicly available use cases for big data and Hadoop are often thin on the ground. We take a look at some examples at Jaguar Land Rover, Zurich Insurance and the Home Office. Here at diginomica we ...

Hadoop is all the rage, it seems. With more than 150 enterprises of various sizes using it — including major companies such as JP Morgan Chase, Google and Yahoo — it may seem inevitable that the ...