As Hadoop kicked off its 10-year anniversary at Spencer Dock in Dublin, Ireland, today, Herb Cunitz, president at Hortonworks, Inc., laid out four themes for Hadoop Summit – Dublin 2016. The first ...

While Hadoop is officially 15 years old as an Apache project, it only gained mainstream IT attention 10 years ago. Hadoop started as an open source implementation of key Google technologies used for ...

The article, Hadoop, a Free Software Program, Finds Uses Beyond Search, explains the very interesting history behind Hadoop. What is Hadoop? It’s distributed computing software that enables data ...

Big data is a concept that’s been as widely hyped as cloud computing, and perhaps just as misunderstood in regards to its capabilities and limitations. One of the aspects of big data that is not ...