The advent of scalable analytics in the form of Hadoop and Spark seems to be moving to the end of the Technology Hype Cycle. A reasonable estimate would put the technology on the “slope of ...

In this special guest feature, Khushbu Shah, Asst. Manager – Technical Content, at DeZyre highlights how Hadoop and Spark enterprise adoption is gaining prominence to drive business value by getting ...

Hortonworks has a new vision that not only leverages data at rest in Hadoop, data streaming in Spark and data in motion in Apache NiFi, but also data at the tipping point where data itself sets the ...

For several years big data has been nearly synonymous with Hadoop, a relatively inexpensive way to store huge amounts of data on commodity servers. But recently banks have started using an alternative ...

The fall of MapR caused a rush to judgement about the future of Hadoop. To understand what this means for data initiatives, the viability of Hadoop and data lakes must be separately examined. Data ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Google is adding another product in its range of big data services on the Google Cloud Platform today. The new Google Cloud Dataproc service, which is now in beta, sits between managing the Spark data ...

With the Hadoop Summit conference coming next week (June 3-5), it might be useful for all newbies to get up to speed with this exciting distributed computing technology. Below is a video presentation ...

At the recent Strata conference in London, Doug Cutting, Hadoop co-creator and chief architect at Hadoop distributor Cloudera, took time to talk to Computer Weekly about the state of play in big data ...

The new Hadoop is nothing less than the Apache Foundation’s attempt to create a whole new general framework for the way big data can be stored, mined, and processed. It ought to not only further ...