It’s become fashionable to pronounce Hadoop as “dead.” But Hadoop led the way to enterprises losing their fear of big data. And in turn, Hadoop unleashed a virtuous cycle of innovation that ...

Hadoop has forever changed the economics and dynamics of large-scale computing, and its use among enterprises looking to augment their traditional data warehouses continues to grow. During the first ...

Jeff Hammerbacher says that Facebook tried them all. And none of them did what the web giant needed them to do. Hammerbacher is the Harvard-trained mathematician Facebook hired in 2006. His job was to ...

Morgan Stanley ran its first Hadoop trial on boxes that were near end of life and the results were so good the banks set up new Hadoop clusters.

Hadoop is a hot job skill, more so in combination with other skills. Dice lists the top 10 skills hiring managers look for in combination with Hadoop.

The three leaders of the relational database market are responding to the sudden mania for the data processing technology Hadoop in three very different ways. While startups and established data ...

Hadoop veteran Arun Murthy says Apache Slider will have a major bearing on the future versatility and take-up of the distributed big-data technology.

Hadoop isn’t living up to its hype -- which means that both Hadoop vendors and their customers need to widen their array of big data technologies ...

Hadoop, architected around batch processing, remains the poster child for big data, though its outsized reputation still outpaces actual adoption, as 451 Research survey data shows.