Google and its MapReduce framework may rule the roost when it comes to massive-scale data processing, but there’s still plenty of that goodness to go around. This article gets you started with Hadoop, ...

Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make its mark in the burgeoning “Big Data” market with an array of new features, including native integration with the open-source MapReduce and Hadoop ...

Platform Computing, a provider of cluster, grid and cloud management software, has announced support for the Apache Hadoop MapReduce programming model to bring enterprise-class distributed computing ...

Big data means big business. One of the most critical assets and organization has is the data that traverses the data center, the user, and the computing environment. All of this information needs to ...

This was originally posted at ZDNet's Between the Lines. A correction has been made to this story. See details below. Amazon on Thursday announced a new cloud computing service that uses Hadoop, a ...

The underlying programming model for MapReduce has been revamped and has changed quite a bit. Chuck Lam, the author of Hadoop in Action Benefits that keep getting better include high levels of ...

Did you know that 90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years alone? With such an overwhelming influx of information, businesses are constantly seeking efficient ways to manage and ...

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

Amazon has announced a new way to process large amounts of data, dubbed Amazon Elastic Map Reduce, that combines the company’s cloud computing infrastructure with the Hadoop open source framework.