Hadoop

A new report from the Linux Foundation reveals expanded Linux use in the enterprise, thanks to big data, cloud, and virtualization technologies.

After nearly seven years of development and fine tuning, the Apache Hadoop data processing framework is finally ready for full production use, the developers of the software announced Wednesday.

Growing enterprise interest in Hadoop and related technologies is driving demand for professionals with big data skills.

Cloudera, the vendor of Hadoop-based software for managing Big Data, scores $40 million in venture funding.

Sybase is hoping its IQ analytic database can make its mark in the burgeoning "Big Data" market with an array of new features, including native integration with the open-source MapReduce and Hadoop programming frameworks for large-scale data processing.

You can add MarkLogic to the growing list of database vendors rushing to embrace the open-source Hadoop programming framework for large-scale data processing.

Companies should take a pragmatic approach to implementing Hadoop for their "big data" requirements, a new report released Tuesday by analyst firm Forrester Research urges.

Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites are often criticized for encouraging people to share thoughts of little consequence, though social scientists are finding these electronic missives, when assembled en masse and analyzed with big data tools, can offer a wealth of new information about how people think and act.

The growing need for companies to manage surging volumes of structured and unstructured data is continuing to propel enterprise use of open source Apache Hadoop software.

The CEO of Yahoo-backed venture Hortonworks says that anybody who uses Apache's Hadoop distribution "is our partner"

SQL has been around for so long that it's practically synonymous with "databases." But a new wave of data management tools -- some of them in use by huge Web players -- is changing the landscape.