Written by Ashish Thusoo, cofounder and CEO of Qubole, a big data startup. I was working on some mundane “big data” problem late afternoon, when I heard a colleague mention with a lot of excitement an ...

Publicly available use cases for big data and Hadoop are often thin on the ground. We take a look at some examples at Jaguar Land Rover, Zurich Insurance and the Home Office. Here at diginomica we ...

When it comes to making a large investment to adopt a new technology like Hadoop, eventually the CEO must be presented with the pros and cons and approve the expense. Most CEOs start with a skeptical ...

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.

Hadoop is a hot topic right now, in the tech press and in the minds of IT organizations with large amounts of data. What is Hadoop and why should business leaders care? Loraine Lawson has broken down ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Apache Hadoop has emerged as the ...

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. From the outside, Hadoop ...

The lure of using big data for your business is a strong one, and there is no brighter lure these days than Apache Hadoop, the scalable data storage platform that lies at the heart of many big data ...

When enterprises interested in leveraging big data and analytics ask how to get started, they often are advised to begin with Hadoop, Apache Software’s open source data storage and processing ...

Are we already entering the trough of disillusion with Big Data? Gartner Research Director Svetlana Sicular says she sees early indications that we are. My, how time flies. It seems only yesterday ...

It has been nearly six years since I attended my first Hadoop World conference in 2009, and, oh my, how the platform has progressed. What I'm most excited about, as Strata-Hadoop World 2015 approaches ...