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 ...

Rob Bearden, CEO of Hortonworks, Inc., which develops and supports Apache Hadoop, sees the hard work of the past few years coming into fruition. The market is on the brink of a positive explosion, ...

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 ...

To address Big Data challenges in a cost-effective way, many organizations are turning to Hadoop, an open-source framework. Hadoop enables applications to run across large arrays of nodes, accessing ...

Enterprises take a platform based, turn-key solution approach to Big Data and Hadoop, thus building an ecosystem around Hadoop is a key priority to Hortonworks. “Hadoop is no longer an option; it’s a ...

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 ...

Industrial environments such as those found within large electric and gas utilities are producing massive volumes of data in real-time that is overwhelming traditional ICT architectures. Additionally, ...

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, ...