Big Data integration software provider Syncsort Inc. is teaming up with Dell Inc. and Cloudera Inc. in a bid to make Hadoop easier for enterprises to get up and running. Syncsort and Dell have ...

Hadoop is hard. There’s just no way around that. Setting up and running a cluster is hard, and so is developing applications that make sense of, and create value from, big data. What Hadoop really ...

NoSQL and Hadoop—two foundations of the emerging agile data architecture—have been on the scene for several years now, and, industry observers say, adoption continues to accelerate—especially within ...

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hortonworks, the leading contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache™ Hadoop®, today highlights the momentum of its global partner ecosystem that accelerates ...

It’s in the nature of hype bubbles to obscure important new paradigms behind a cloud of excitement and exaggerated claims. For example, the phrase “big data” has been so widely and poorly applied that ...

Over at The Data Stack, Intel’s Tim Allen writes that the key to optimizing Hadoop on x86 is to tune the underlying Java so that it takes advantage of capabilities in Intel hardware. When you do that, ...

SQL is, arguably, the biggest workload many organizations run on their Hadoop clusters. And there’s good reason why: The combination of a familiar interface (SQL) along with a modern computing ...