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 ...

Next week opens one the largest Big Data events in the World: The O’Reilly Strata + Hadoop World Conference in New York City. The event is set to draw thousands of Big Data enthusiasts into the ...

Doug Cutting, creator of the distributed computing platform Hadoop, on why the platform is in an almost unassailable position and what's in store for the platform.

Though it wasn't created with security in mind, Hadoop is becoming a necessary platform for companies wanting to get the biggest bang out of big data.

MapR Technologies CEO talks about the Apache Hadoop project and what enhancements his company has added.

As Hadoop becomes more widely adopted in the enterprise, its security limitations are becoming more apparent. Brian Christian, co-founder and CTO of secure Big Data management vendor Zettaset, ...

Forrester analyst Noel Yuhanna explained the genesis of big data fabrics in his recent report on the matter. According to Yuhanna, the gap between the expectations that companies have with big data ...

Hadoop, architected around batch processing, remains the poster child for big data, though its outsized reputation still outpaces actual adoption, as 451 Research survey data shows.