Hadoop Summit North America 2013 is in a week. Before we get a chance to see what has been happening in the world of Hadoop, let’s take a look back at what transpired at last year’s conference. 8.5 ...

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Mar 13, 2013) - MapR Technologies, Inc., the Hadoop technology leader, today announced it will share its insights about Big Data and Hadoop and profile its award-winning ...

In the Hadoop Summit 2015 presentation below, SVP of Engineering at Actian, Emma McGrattan will discuss ways users can navigate around Hadoop’s technology limitations and turn it into a ...

Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive — and constantly growing — datasets.

Leading storage vendor EMC plans to use technology developed by MapR to power the Hadoop data-analytics platform in its Greenplum products. The licensing agreement, announced on Wednesday, will see ...

MapR Technologies Inc. passed a major landmark in its journey to deliver structured query functionality for Hadoop on Tuesday after its open-source Drill tool graduated from incubation at the Apache ...

A few weeks ago, two giants of the big data Hadoop era, Cloudera and Hortonworks, announced they would be merging. The announcement claimed it would be a “merger of equals.” It is fascinating to see ...

With the strong growth over the past 10 to 15 years of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google and Yahoo, data center technologies have advanced rapidly from their enterprise roots as IT ...

ScaleOut Software says its new in-memory processing middleware addresses a gap in Hadoop's capabilities by bringing real-time analytics to the open-source distributed computing software.

Despite some lingering user concerns about security and other issues, Hadoop is ready for enterprise use, according to IT executives at the Hadoop World conference in New York earlier this month.