Reporting and analysis tools help businesses make better quality decisions faster. The source of information that enables these decisions is data. There are broadly two types of data: structured and ...

I gave an introductory talk on Hadoop yesterday at the Visual Studio Live! conference in Las Vegas. During the talk, I discussed how Hadoop Streaming, a utility which allows arbitrary executables to ...

Hadoop is the most significant concrete technology behind the so called “Big Data” revolution. Hadoop combines an economical model for storing massive quantities of data – the Hadoop Distributed File ...

Cloudera, an open source startup working to expand the use of Apache Hadoop, made two announcements today. First, it has secured $5 million in Series A funding. Second, the Cloudera Distribution for ...