Key Takeaways Free Hadoop courses help learners build strong big data foundations.Many courses cover real-world projects and ...

The first tutorial explains how to install Hadoop on a local virtual machine to help you get familiar with Hadoop: Big Data Step-by-Step: Infrastructure 1/3: Local VM View more ...

When R programmers talk about “big data,” they don’t necessarily mean data that goes through Hadoop. They generally use “big” to mean data that can’t be analyzed in memory.

Hadoop changes the game for enterprise storage. We look at how Hadoop crunches big data, its key storage requirements and survey the vendors that offer Hadoop storage products ...

Datastax. DataStax is unveiling DataStax Enterprise (DSE) 2.1, a new release of the management system with new capabilities for running a Hadoop cluster across multiple data centers.

In fact, anecdotal evidence suggests that companies will continue to build and run Hadoop clusters to manage and process big data – ostensibly using Apache Spark, which continues to gather steam. But ...

Cloudera raises $160m for Hadoop big data push; Microsoft's SQL Server 2014 crowns Redmond's data platform; Big data: Why IT departments mustn't be a drag on analytics; ...

Hadoop 2.0 introduces YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator) and demotes MapReduce to one of several tools for mining big data. The result is a more generalized and flexible framework for ...

The results from the second annual Syncsort Hadoop survey are in and the 250 high-level respondents predict some surprising future trends of big data.