Some three weeks after the launch of the Open Data Platform, the Hadoop initiative driven by Pivotal and Hortonworks can now name another new member, in the form of distributed computing specialist ...

There is a lot of pressure on open source to deliver a viable platform for the enterprise. As we learned at the recently concluded Hadoop Summit (#hadoopsummit), Hortonworks believes that Hadoop + ...

John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, broadcast live from San Jose, for the first day of Hadoop Summit 2013. They interviewed Tomer Shiran, Vice President of Product Management with MapR, ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

AtScale, Inc. has introduced a platform that will enable interactive, multi-dimensional analysis on Hadoop, directly from standard business intelligence tools such as Microsoft Excel, Tableau Software ...

The days of businesses relying on locked-down operating systems and platforms tightly controlled by commercial organisations are numbered, according to Hadoop creator Doug Cutting. Proprietary ...

The boys at Hortonworks eat, sleep and live Hadoop, and there’s a feeling they’ll never be satisfied. Not because they, and other Apache Hadoop committers, think that the Open Source Big Data ...

The big thing in Big Data this year might not be the data, but the applications. It’s oxymoronic, I know, but it’s not the first time we’ve heard this. As I shared last year, SAP already contends that ...

Google has long made it possible for its users to run Hadoop — a framework for storing and processing large amounts of data — on its Cloud Platform. Until now, however, the only way to get in and out ...

A number of the largest big data vendors, including IBM, Hortonworks and Pivotal, have banded together to specify a unified base platform for the open source Hadoop data processing software. The Open ...

When you start a revolution, you need to go public before the next revolution starts. Hadoop used to be the “revolutionary” technology behind the “big data” revolution but it has now been buried deep ...

You may have heard the news out of last week’s Strata: the next version of Hadoop is going to be bigger and badder than ever. But hidden within the hype about size ...