Big data can mean big threats to security, thanks to the tempting volumes of information that may sit waiting for hackers to peruse. BlueTalon hopes to tackle that problem with what it calls the first ...

Major Big Data and open source players Hortonworks and Red Hat Inc. today announced their engineering teams will collaborate to enhance Apache Hadoop storage options for enterprises. The companies ...

Hadoop accomplishes this by applying more efficient formats and file systems to large datasets that would normally have been out of the reach of standard analytics solutions. For more articles on this ...

When it emerged from stealth in 2011, MapR was an outlier in the Hadoop community. At the time, Hadoop was defined largely by two projects adapted from Google research: MapReduce, which introduced ...

Like many others, I continue to be impressed by the open-source Apache Hadoop software framework. With aplomb, it manages Big Data, images, documents, web logs–and tons of other unstructured and ...

Cloud computing is a new technology which comes from distributed computing, parallel computing, grid computing and other computing technologies. In cloud computing, the data storage and computing are ...

Gluster, a provider of open source storage solutions, has just released a version of its storage system that includes support for Apache Hadoop. GlusterFS 3.3 beta 2 employs standard file system APIs ...

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